Catholic Church

Reform of penal law rejects E&W bishops' request for language change

-- rome -- the vatican rolled out a reform of its penal sanctions on tuesday. at a press conference in the press office of the holy see, sen...
Christopher Altieri

Unidentified ecclesiastical objects

anglican (and some catholic) friends usually regard post-war catholic churches with a degree of horror. the catholic church in this country ...
Michael Hodges

Christianity and all that

the treasures of english churches: witnesses to the history of a nation, by matthew byrne shire publications, £20, 160 pages and did those f...
Harry Mount

Michael Courtney – the man who could have been pope

it was the evening of monday 29 december, 2003. a car carrying the yellow and white vatican flag was travelling towards bujumbura, the capit...
Bill Colegrave

Steve Skojec's Traditionalist Disillusion

the last straw for steve skojec was an fssp priest telling him that his son couldn’t make his first communion, and his soon-to-be-born son w...
Steven D. Greydanus

Pope Francis orders investigation of Cologne Archdiocese

pope francis has called on cardinal anders arborelius of stockholm and bishop johannes van den hende of rotterdam to undertake an apostolic ...
Tommaso Pozzi

Cardinal Bo: Attack on Sacred Heart Church ‘a great humanitarian tragedy’

“peace is possible; peace is the only way,” writes burmese cardinal charles bo, in an open letter following an attack on a catholic church i...
Staff Reporter

Synodality can work ... if leadership lets it

the mechanism of the salisbury cathedral clock shortly after its restoration, july 1956. (folb/topical press agency/hulton archive/getty ima...
Charles Collins

Church movements denounce attacks against the Yanomami in Brazil

images projected by the ngo instituto socioambiental on the national congress building in brasilia, on 3 december 2020. (evaristo sa/afp via...
Eduardo Campos Lima

Cardinal Cupich reinstates activist priest accused of abuse

father michael pfleger, a chicago priest known for his political activism, has been cleared by an archdiocesan review board of charges of ch...
Staff Reporter