Michael Haynes

Leo’s August and autumn plans see a number of key events

The Pope has returned to the Vatican after his summer holiday, with a growing programme of audiences, liturgies and overseas travel ahead

Vatican cedes diocese to China with consecration of new bishop

The consecration of another bishop in China reveals a hidden political surrender on the part of the Vatican to Beijing

Archbishop Wilson: Catholics are recovering their apostolic confidence

Speaking at the WeBelieve festival, the Archbishop of Southwark points to new beginnings, growing confidence and a return to the Church’s apostolic identity

Cardinal Roche: Leo is not changing Latin Mass restrictions

Cardinal Roche repeated previous arguments against the traditional liturgy, adding that he did not think Leo would alter Francis' restrictions

Archbishop Sample: Satan ‘is rejoicing’ at the SSPX ‘situation’

The archbishop of Portland, Oregon suggested that the SSPX ‘schism’ was a cause of delight for Satan, who seeks division in the Church

Bishop Egan: Avoid the SSPX and attend only licit traditional Masses

Catholics should avoid the SSPX liturgies since they are illicit, wrote Bishop Egan of the Diocese of Portsmouth

Cardinal Zen: ‘Protection’ of the family a ‘primary mission’ for Church today

Hong Kong’s emeritus cardinal issued an impassioned plea for all Catholics to redouble efforts to protect the family from anti-life ideologies

Lawyer for Rupnik victims being ‘fobbed off’ by Vatican’s total secrecy

The lawyer representing alleged victims of Fr Rupnik says the Vatican has not involved them at all in the trial, and raised concerns about the level of secrecy

Founder of Latin Mass order consecrated sedevacantist bishop and excommunicated

Fr Michael Mary FSSR has been declared in schism and excommunicated after a public declaration of sedevacantism and illicit episcopal consecration

Leo names Archbishop Cordileone to Vatican’s highest court

The appointment of seven new members to the Apostolic Signatura marks the continuation of Leo XIV’s focus on Canon Law in the Roman Curia

EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Müller on the consistory and ‘woke’ German church

Speaking exclusively to the Catholic Herald, Cardinal Gerhard Müller discusses Pope Leo XIV’s consistories, the Vatican’s handling of the SSPX and what he sees as the growing influence of ‘woke’ ideology in the German Church

Woman gives joint homily with German bishop despite Vatican ban

A lay-woman delivered a “dialogue sermon” with the auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising this week, seemingly contravening the Vatican’s ban

Priests push back on German bishops’ controversial blessing guidance

Clergy in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising warned that the norms the cardinal is pushing risk dividing the diocese and contradict Rome’s authority

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