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Life and Seoul: World Youth Day will head to South Korea in 2027
lisbon – in a sign of the rapidly expanding influence that asian catholicism is having in the global church, pope francis announced on sunda...
Elise Ann Allen
"A stone in the shoe": the Francis revolution
rome — a broad consensus regards pope francis, who today wraps up a five-day trip to lisbon for world youth day, as a revolutionary figure. ...
John L Allen
"Share your joy with others!" Pope Francis's message to 1.5 million young people
lisbon – pope francis has told a crowd of young people at a prayer vigil for world youth day (wyd), estimated by organisers to be in the reg...
Elise Ann Allen
The Transfiguration: an image of Christ’s revelation to the world
a damaged icon of the transfiguration laid out near the wreckage of transfiguration cathedral in odesa after a missile strike on july 23, 20...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
A deeply-loved bon viveur and deathbed convert: Augustin Hochschild, 1965-2023
it was friday march 17, and the portuguese mountain rain had been falling from the heavens all morning on our 60-mile walking pilgrimage to ...
William Cash
Russian Orthodox bishop thanks Francis for his "support of the Ukrainian people"
lisbon – during a meeting with interreligious leaders on friday morning in lisbon, pope francis spoke to a russian orthodox bishop who voice...
Elise Ann Allen
Our Lady of Alltötting: A shrine where Mary helped
melanie mcdonagh follows pope benedict xvi to the feet of our lady of altötting. to begin with, i didn’t think i was going to lik...
Melanie McDonagh
Notebook from Lisbon: Dutch courage at World Youth Day
lisbon - the organisers of the world youth day (wyd) events are proud of the unparalleled internationality of their participants. however, t...
Tom Colsy
Priests must play soccer, not preach dogma, says Pope in broadside against traditionalists
rome – pope francis has attacked the “corruption” of restorationist movements within the church and said the second vatican council has not ...
Crux Staff
'Everyone is so on fire': Pilgrims savour atmosphere of World Youth Day
lisbon – youths attending wyd in lisbon this week alongside hundreds of thousands of their peers have marvelled at the electric atmosphere, ...
Elise Ann Allen
Young Chinese Catholics speak of hope of papal visit to China
lisbon – young people from china attending world youth day in lisbon have praised pope francis’s kindness and invited him to visit, saying c...
Elise Ann Allen
Raw, unadulterated walking
a simple joy and peace comes from walking, whether alone or with someone close, says julian kwasniewski. walking with the sun on your back; ...
Julian Kwasniewski
Response to life
michael white enjoys three very different outstanding performances. when music tourists go to leipzig it tends to be for js bach, who lies b...
Michael White
The Bible’s strange poetry
a new translation of a book exploring the bible’s foreign and divine language is a spirited defence of the sacred, poetic word, says nick ri...
Nick Ripatrazone
Life without crises is barely life at all, Pope Francis tells young people
lisbon –pope francis has met with young people involved in an organisation he established personally in buenos aires, encouraging them to ac...
Elise Ann Allen
James Jeffrey's Catholic Herald pilgrimage guide to Assisi
umbria in italy beckons for the next catholic herald pilgrimage at the end of september. we are venturing beyond the iberian peninsula to wa...
James Jeffrey
Clerical eco-activists and taking God's name in vain
it is not easy to watch pictures of an elderly protestant clergywoman, sporting her dog collar, being arrested for breaching the peace as sh...
Gavin Ashenden
Pope in Lisbon calls on youth to be 'teachers of hope'
lisbon – pope francis kicked off the second day of his august 2-6 visit to lisbon meeting with catholic university students, telling them to...
Elise Ann Allen
Pope offers comfort to Portuguese church facing secularisation in aftermath of abuse scandal
lisbon – in the wake of a devastating clerical sexual abuse scandal in a country already buffeted by secularisation and increasing pluralism...
Elise Ann Allen
En Vacances en Normandie
the region has a wealth of former monastic buildings, some in ruins but some whose churches still survive. the history of the duchy of norm-...
Michael Hodges
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