Catholic Church

Cardinal Tagle to serve as Pope’s special envoy to US National Eucharistic Congress

new york — in what the head of the united states conference of catholic bishops (usccb) is calling a “gift,” filipino cardinal luis tagle wi...

Meeting between Cardinal Ambongo and Congo’s president eases tensions in Africa's largest Catholic country

amid what threatened to become a serious church v. state clash in africa’s largest catholic country, the cardinal threatened with prosecutio...

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On the record: Musical ups and downs on the way to Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday

if you are near oxford, make haste to the bodleian library, where you will find on display the autograph of auf christi himmelfahrt allein, ...

Alex Hodgkinson

Fourth priest kidnapped in Nigeria in just five months

extremists have captured another catholic priest in nigeria, bringing the number of clerics kidnapped in the country this year to four. the ...

Vatican publishes new norms for vetting private revelations

rome – the vatican today rolled out a new expedited procedure for vetting alleged marian apparitions or other spiritual phenomenon, ruling t...

Canadian archbishop fights for right of church hospice to refuse euthanasia

no-one ever slides up a slippery slope. they only ever go down. euthanasia invariably involves a descent that is not so much like skidding t...

State castration of child rapists denounced by Madagascan bishops

madagascar’s influential catholic bishops’ conference – usually loyal to the government – has denounced a new law for the castration for pae...

Controversial Chinese bishop to speak at Vatican conference

rome – next week a high-profile conference will be held marking the centenary of the catholic church’s first ever council in china, drawing ...

The profound religiosity of Franz Joseph Haydn

one of history’s greatest catholic composers, franz joseph haydn’s masses, oratorios and sacred instrumental works are so moving, energising...

Why are some people so intolerant about children at Mass?

i have just stomped in from an otherwise lovely day celebrating our eldest child reaching double figures. children being rather more sophist...