Catholic Church

in what came as a surprise to many members of the catholic elite in germany, pope emeritus benedict xvi has launched a foundation for cathol...

Catholic News Agency

pope francis has hung a cross encircled by a life jacket inside a vatican building in memory of migrants and refugees who have lost their li...

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

the great al-tahira immaculate conception cathedral in bakhdida remains charred black inside, five years after the islamic state plundered a...

Howard Kiernan

what should you wear at christmas parties? and how should you look presentable without looking vain? i stumbled upon the answer at the inaug...

Harry Mount

paul tillich (1886-1965) was born to a minister of the prussian state church in what is now poland. he and his family moved to berlin when h...

Charles Coulombe

cryptic across 1 was jesus called thus after a dodgy healing tale? (3,8) 8 in nevada, east of 17dn, small number meet the pope (6,1) 9 conce...

Alun Evans

" o admirabile commercium : o marvellous exchange! man’s creator has become man, born of a virgin. we have been made sharers in the divinity...

Fr Dominic Allain

when bishops meet by john w o’malley harvard university press, 223pp, £20/$24.95 how many bishops does it take to change the course of catho...

Jonathan Wright

the modern heresy exposed by terror sir – in his searching article “can jihadists be rehabilitated?” (december 6), tim stanley says: “many o...

The Catholic Herald

unless pope francis decides to canonise one or more of the 158 english and welsh martyrs beatified by his predecessors, but never raised to ...

Simon Caldwell