Vatican Dispatch

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández emerging as a central figure in the unfolding crisis

Schwarzenegger’s encounter with Leo XIV, the return of papal liturgical customs, and Cardinal Fernández

Fake news emerging from the Vatican was promptly debunked this week, as credible signs emerged of upcoming foreign travel and restored Vatican customs

Leo used his first State of the World address to warn against ideological coercion, while a leaked consistory text on the traditional Mass exposed deepening divisions in Rome

A document authored under Cardinal Arthur Roche’s authority and circulated to cardinals during the January consistory sets out a forceful rejection of the Tridentine Latin Mass

Our Vatican correspondent, Michael Haynes, gives his assessment of an extraordinary week in Rome

The curious case of the sacking of Msgr Agostini

Speaking exclusively with the Catholic Herald, cardinals offer their candid assessments of Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory

What can be expected from Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory, and what it may reveal about the direction and tone of the new pontificate

Pope Leo XIV ends 4-day Turkey visit urging Christian unity and interfaith respect, marking Nicaea’s 1,700th.

The Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople have prayed together and issued a joint declaration that may well pave the way for changes between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. But what should Catholics make of the statements?

For decades the Church has wrestled with how best to articulate Mary’s cooperation in salvation history without overshadowing Christ’s unique mediation. The prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is continuing in that tradition – though amid some criticism of his efforts

Father Rimaycuna, who followed the then-Bishop Robert Francis Prevost from Chiclayo in Peru to Rome and continued in his service when Prevost was elected to the papacy in May 2025, now assumes the lowest of the three monsignorial dignities

Pope Leo XIV has approved the most comprehensive reform of Vatican administration in twenty-five years.

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has released a new doctrinal note, Una Caro. In Praise of Monogamy, presenting monogamous marriage as a gift rooted in human dignity and grace

In unitate fidei urges Christians to recover the unity first affirmed at Nicaea as he prepares to mark the council’s 1,700th anniversary at its ancient site

The 'motu proprio' only took a sentence to amend the irregularity and restore legal clarity, but it marks a decisive early step in Leo's pontificate in terms of trying to fix inconsistencies inherited from the previous pontificate

Mary’s Advocates, a lay organisation that seeks to uphold marriage against unilateral no-fault divorce, argues the bishop’s stance involves an error historically condemned as an 'anathema'

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski has responded to secular media claims that transgender activists were intentionally excluded from Pope Leo XIV’s top table at the Vatican’s Jubilee Lunch for the Poor

Representatives of the German Bishops’ Conference met with senior officials from the Roman Curia in Rome this week as part of a continued round of talks over the creation of a national synodal body for the Church in Germany