Catholic Church

papal plane – returning from lisbon on sunday, pope francis insisted that maintaining the church's traditional teachings on ordination and m...

Elise Ann Allen

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

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

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

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

lisbon – youths attending wyd in lisbon this week alongside hundreds of thousands of their peers have marvelled at the electric atmosphere, ...

Elise Ann Allen

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

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

lisbon – in the wake of a devastating clerical sexual abuse scandal in a country already buffeted by secularisation and increasing pluralism...

Elise Ann Allen

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