Catholic Church

Warhol’s Catholic tastes

nick ripatrazone finds the latest series about the artist perfectly depicts the startling paradoxes that guided his life and work the final ...

Nick Ripatrazone

A new biography of "Old" Jerusalem reviewed

nine quarters o f jerusalem: a new biography of the old city by matthew teller  profile books, £13.35, 389 pages if this book were a pa...

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali

A requiem for a Church

a people’s church: a history of the church of england by jeremy morris profile books, £30, 480 pages the defining and unhappy image of the r...

Newman miracle mother warns Catholics to protect consciences of children from anti-Christian culture

the american mother miraculously healed of a potentially fatal haemorrhage by the intercession of cardinal st john henry newman has spoken o...

The restoration of two Bentley churches

in the 19th century, the “potteries” in notting dale, west london, were an area of considerable degradation, with many poor irish catholic i...

Pope Francis is correct: all war is unjust

in patrick o’brian’s novel desolation island, captain jack aubrey explains to ship’s physician stephen maturin why aubrey has doubts about h...

Fighting for faith

mark wahlberg’s early-morning routine would shame the divine office of a medieval cistercian monk. he gets up at 2:30am and then spends 15-2...

Symbolic stance

the church of england’s consistory courts are not normally at the centre of the culture war. these bodies – there is one in every anglican d...

Promotion for Bishop of Plymouth as Pope appoints him to two Welsh dioceses

the pope has appointed bishop mark o’toole as archbishop-elect of cardiff and bishop-elect of menevia. a londoner, bishop o’toole has been b...

Pope names new Archbishop of Paris

pope francis has named archbishop laurent ulrich as the new catholic archbishop of paris. ulrich, the archbishop of lille, northern france, ...