Catholic Church

Pope ends impasse over Order of Malta

pope francis has directly intervened to end an impasse between the vatican and the sovereign military order of malta over controversial refo...

Pope pleads for Church to dedicate Ash Wednesday as day of fasting and prayer for peace in Ukraine

pope francis has renewed his appeal for the entire catholic church to dedicate ash wednesday as a day of prayer and fasting for peace in ukr...

Rescusants revisited

an aristocratic catholic friend once told me that his father would refer to a co-religionist landowner as “cousin x”, despite the family con...

Pope and circumstance

on saturday 8 october, the parliament choir have been invited to perform elgar’s the dream of gerontius in san paolo fuori le mura, the papa...

Go vegan for Lent

lent, the time of fast and abstinence before easter, is based on christ’s time in the wilderness, described in the first chapter of mark’s g...

Gertrude Clarke

An entertaining masterpiece that reveals sides of an extraordinary woman never before seen

maria theresa: the habsburg empress in her time barbara stollberg-rilinger, translated by robert savage princeton university press, £35, 110...

Diary: I am glad to hold a "synodal process"

there can’t have been many clergy filled with unrestrained enthusiasm and christian joy when told of the requirement to hold a “synodal proc...

Fr Mark Vickers

Ukraine: “If the churches are bombed, then we shall celebrate elsewhere,” says the Eparch of London

as the bbc reported a mounting death-toll in ukraine, on friday afternoon i spoke about the rapidly-developing situation to the rt revd kenn...

Serenhedd James

Russia’s Catholic bishops call on leaders to end conflict with Ukraine

the catholic bishops’ conference of russia has called on political leaders to end the conflict with ukraine. in a feb. 24  message , th...

Hannah Brockhaus

Leader of Polish Catholic Church warns German counterpart over errors of the Synodal way

the president of poland’s catholic bishops’ conference has expressed “fraternal concern” about the direction of the “synodal way” in a stron...