Catholic Church

Diary: England's best new work of sacred art for years

as someone who is wading very slowly towards a dphil in the history of art and architecture, i get to spend rather a lot of time thinking ab...

Stephen Withnell

German media accuse Francis of 'stabbing bishops in the back'

a vatican cardinal’s warning that plans for a binding synodal process in germany appear to be “ecclesiologically invalid” and not in accorda...

Anian Christoph Wimmer

How America embraced Newman

the recent news that the bishop of northampton has declined to move forward with the cause for the canonisation of gk chesterton was not wel...

Britain will be judged by the way it treats Tafida

last week the high court heard the tragic case of tafida raqeeb, now aged five, who suffered a devastating intracranial bleed on february 9 ...

The Catholic Herald

Are deacons really 'celebrating Mass' in the Amazon?

sandro magister, the veteran vaticanista for italy’s l’espresso, wrote a column last week headlined “in the amazon married deacons are alrea...

Christopher R. Altieri

The growing worldwide threat to confessional secrecy

the australian state of victoria has passed a new mandatory reporting law, which does not respect the seal of the confessional. the bill had...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from St Paul to Salta

st paul, minnesota first abuse investigation under new bishops’ law an archbishop will investigate cover-up allegations against a local bish...

The week in quotations

"i sensed that this thought came to me from the holy spirit" pope francis explains why he decided to give a relic of st peter to the eastern...

Meanwhile: Abba inside the Vatican, 'Day of Sobriety'

you might imagine that vatican officials would only listen to monteverdi and palestrina. but archbishop paul gallagher, the holy see’s forei...

The best of the web: Chinese demolitions, forgotten conservative thinker, Amazon synod protests

in china, 18 months of demolition at asia news, fr bernardo cervellera summarised the situation of chinese catholics. it includes “churches ...