Catholic Church

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, ...

Russian nuclear orthodoxy

for patriarch kirill nuclear weapons are necessary for salvation, explains mark jenkins sergei shoigu, the russian defence minister, is a pr...

Priest stabbed repeatedly at church in France

a 72-year-old religious sister has been praised for her “extraordinary courage” after she sought to disarm a man stabbing a priest at a cath...

Vatican clears Polish cardinal of negligence after abuse probe

the vatican has ended an investigation into allegations that polish cardinal stanisław dziwisz failed to investigate claims of clerical sex ...

Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis shares 'apprehension' over German synodal path, says senior Vatican cardinal

a top cardinal at the vatican has confirmed pope francis’ apprehension about germany’s “synodal path,” cardinal kurt koch  said that cr...