Catholic Church

Brazilian Church leaders increasingly critical of Brazil's Bolsonaro

people holding a brazilian flag that reads "522,000 deaths, we won't forget" take part in a demonstration on 3 july 2021. (sergio lima/afp v...
Eduardo Campos Lima

Southern African Bishops call for restraint, dialogue in Eswatini

bishops in southern africa are calling for “restraint and a spirit of meaningful dialogue” in the kingdom of eswatini as the government crac...
Staff Reporter

Maria Goretti's silence was tragic, not heroic, and not a model for us

one of the more uncomfortable homilies i can remember included a paean to the “heroic silence” of st maria goretti in the face of prolonged ...
Steven D. Greydanus

Free the Latin Mass, for the good of the Church and the people who need it

apparently they never give up. some bishops want “to see the extraordinary form of the roman rite explicitly suppressed, or subject to furth...
David Mills

Traditional Latin Mass advocates appeal to Pope to protect Summorum Pontificum

a federation that advocates for the traditional latin mass has appealed to pope francis to protect it from those "within the church, includi...
Catholic News Agency

‘We should never have a perfect Church’

canon law is dinner-party talk once more. in households up and down the country, catholic and non-catholic alike, the canonical form of marr...
David Cowan

Cardinal Parolin on Vatican corruption trial: We're victims

pope francis speaks with vatican secretary of state, cardinal pietro parolin, in the vatican, 21 december 2017. (claudio peri/afp via getty ...
Christopher Altieri

A communion conundrum

until my late father-in-law went into a care home and forgot about church, he’d only missed mass twice in the entire course of his nine deca...
Cressida Connolly

Surviving the holiday

july is a month of leisure and fruitfulness, holidays in which to bask in decent weather and drink exotic cocktails, cereal crops that swell...
charlie-hart

Diary: Paying homage to Our Lady of Lord's

mass during the pandemic has generally been more old than new rite, extraordinary rather than ordinary.  it turns out that many modern ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg