Find out what's really happening in the Catholic Church

Cover Story…

Fra’ Matthew Festing, former head of the Order of Malta, breaks his silence in an exclusive interview

More comment…

Lapsed Scottish Catholics have found a new religion, says Stephen Daisley. It’s called nationalism

David Inczauskis SJ on how Taylor Swift helped inspire his vocation to the Jesuits

Available exclusively on the online app and in the magazine…

Why are civil servants so religiously illiterate, asks Madeleine Teahan

Catherine Pepinster on the year that brought Britain and the Holy See together

José María Poirier profiles papal ghostwriter Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández

Bishop Robert Byrne on the one thing the world needs

William Cash worries about George Osborne

Mary Kenny says listening to Dame Vera Lynn is good for your health

JF Powers’s daughter on what he really thought of the English Mass

Michael Duggan reviews The Benedict Option

Will Heaven asks if monks will survive the 21st century

Don’t repress your greatness, says Ronald Rolheiser

12 pages of news and analysis – and much more.

To read the Catholic Herald anywhere in the world, go here.