Catholic Church

Outrage in Brazil after archbishop gives communion to Muslim sheikh

são paulo – during a funeral mass of a major figure in the brazilian church on august 28, a muslim sheikh ended up receiving communion, spar...

Eduardo Campos Lima

Small Polish town prepares for beatification of whole family killed for saving Jews

kraków, poland – around 11:30 am on september 1, a woman approached the ulma family grave in a markowa cemetery, bowed her head, and prayed....

‘The best good in the world’: The US organisations leading a renaissance of Catholic sacred music

orange county – the place name conjuring images of the spray-tanned secular class splashing in the salty mist of the pacific ocean – may see...

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: The return of the school uniform in France

in 2017 saint-jean de passy, a private school in the 16th arrondissement of paris, introduced what it called a “practical, modern and sober”...

Water in the desert: Pope Francis praises the faithfulness of the Church in Mongolia

ulaanbaatar – speaking to one of the catholic church’s smallest flocks, located in a region that has not always been hospitable to christian...

Mongolia and the papacy: thinking in centuries

rome – legendarily, the vatican thinks in centuries. there’s a sense in which pope francis’s visit to mongolia this week, the first ever by ...

The Jesuit churches of Lancashire

three churches in the county still remain under jesuit control, but many more have been passed on to diocesan or other authorities . lancash...

Small is beautiful: Pope Francis's encouragement for Mongolian Catholics

ulaanbaatar – on his second full day in mongolia, pope francis met with pastors and missionaries who serve the country’s tiny catholic flock...

'The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F**k' is nihilistic

mark manson is not a philosopher, nor is he a psychologist, but you may still have heard of him. if not, you are certainly likely to have he...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

By stacking the odds in his favour, does Pope Francis risk splitting the vote at the next conclave?

almost 300 years ago, a minor french playwright by the cumbersome name of léonor-jean-christine soulas d’allainval – he mockingly referred t...