Catholic Church

Is the Synodal Way a hostile take-over of the Church?

of all the voices raised in warning about an imminent coup threatening the catholic church, former head of the congregation for the doctrine...

Did anyone outside the church really care about Vatican II?

last week saw the celebration of the feast of st john xxiii as well as the anniversary of the opening of the second vatican council, which h...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

Pope extends Synod on Synodality to 2024

pope francis has announced that the synod on synodality will be extended to 2024. speaking in his angelus address on sunday, the pope shared...

Metropolitan Kallistos: Orthodoxy’s first global-age teacher

metropolitan kallistos of diokleia was the eastern orthodox church’s most familiar voice in the english-speaking world for six decades. his ...

Fr Mark Woodruff

Ian Ker at 80

fr ian ker turned 80 at the end of august. in the course of a celebratory dinner at the oxford & cambridge club, he was presented with a...

Pope renews warnings of nuclear war as fighting escalates in Ukraine

pope francis has renewed his appeal for peace in ukraine and has warned the world again of the danger of the conflict escalating into a nucl...

Poulenc’s glorious surrealism

that the composer francis poulenc was devoutly catholic is signalled by his output of choral works so fervent they force you to your knees: ...

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 ...

Listening to the laity can only help the Church

the american church has spoken. to put it another way, the local and diocesan responses in the us to the pope’s call for a global synod have...

The Catholic Herald

Inclusion and diversity the mandate for King Charles

the outpouring of gratitude and grief at the death of the queen was an occasion of rare unity in britain. the people who came to pay their r...

The Catholic Herald