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Responsibility, Accountability, Transparency: The State of Church Reform
over the past few years, journalists – including this vatican watcher – and experts in a host of related or adjacent fields have written ad ...
Christopher Altieri
The Rupnik Scandal: Leading canonist dissects handling of startling case
(rome) ever since the fr rupnik scandal broke earlier this month — alleging that the slovenian jesuit artist serially abused women religious...
Diana Montagna
Don’t give up on the Church – and certainly not because of Fiducia Supplicans
christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and a lot of catholics are arguing after the release of fiducia supplicans . welcome to ...
Katherine Bennett
The Scoles family: a Catholic architectural dynasty
joseph john scoles (1798-1863) was born in london, the son of a catholic joiner. he was educated at baddesley green and in 1812 apprenticed ...
Michael Hodges
Euthanasia in Belgium: the slide from hard cases to the 'tired of life'
belgium introduced a bill allowing euthanasia in 2002. in short, it now has significant experience in the matter. in the meantime, other cou...
BenoitBeuselinck
Raise a glass to GK Chesterton
this year marks the centenary of gk chesterton’s reception into the catholic church. it had been anticipated by some of his most catholic wr...
The Catholic Herald
"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
Lighten up about 'religious' concerns over Halloween: young children love ghouls and ghosties
as i write, with the weather on the turn and summer lapsing away like grief, as emily dickinson put it, there are daily consolatory inspecti...
Flora Watkins
Understanding the Orthodox Christian worldview motivating Vladimir Putin in war with Ukraine
it seems a good, if not vital, moment to try and look beyond the narrow analysis of the dreadful war in ukraine provided by the vast majorit...
Mark Jenkins
Unlocking the 'prophetic vision' of Flannery O'Connor, the writer who swam in Thomism
understanding the hillybilly thomist: the philosophical foundations of flannery o’connor’s narrative art by fr damian ference word on fire, ...
Simon Caldwell
Bishop urges Catholics to stick to church funerals amid rise of 'direct cremations'
an english bishop has encouraged catholics to hold fast to christian faith and practice at funerals in the wake of rising numbers of “no fri...
The Catholic Herald
Sister Clare Crockett, the beloved 'All or Nothing' Irish nun, up for sainthood
the beatification cause is being opened for sister clare crockett, the young irish nun who turned her back on a promising acting career for ...
The Catholic Herald
‘Take that, schismatics!’
the right and the left in america are equally partisan about pope francis. whatever else has occurred during the present papacy, the catholi...
Ken Craycraft
Bishop quits after finding role 'too great a burden'
pope francis has accepted the resignation of the bishop of hexham and newcastle who has quit almost a decade before he was due to retire, sa...
Simon Caldwell
Future uncertain for outspoken U.S. Bishop Strickland after Vatican investigates his conduct
the vatican’s dicastery of bishops has completed a formal investigation of bishop joseph e. strickland and the diocese of tyler, texas, acco...
CNA Staff
The joyous challenge of Christmas is to see each person we meet as a small child of God
when he brings the first-born into the world, he says, 'let all god's angels worship him .' (hebrews 1:6) the reading from the letter ...
Fr David Howell
Cardinal Tagle sets out his vision for the Church
filipino cleric, cardinal luis antonio tagle, who was named by pope francis as his special envoy for the general conference of the federatio...
Ignatius Dean
The first Nowell
last year, my husband and i decided it would be best to stay in london and celebrate christmas at home. it was our daughter lily’s first chr...
lara prendergast
Oklahoma high court rules against Catholic school ‘evangelising’ with public dollars
oklahoma's supreme court has ruled against what would have been the first publicly funded religious charter school in the us. the high court...
The Catholic Herald
Sometimes You'll Get Conned
her name was angel, a name that made me think of that verse about entertaining angels. she appeared in the local buy nothing group last nove...
MaryPezzulo
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