Catholic Church

The week in quotations

"if you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans" bishop john wilson says he’s surprised to be the next archbishop of southwark statement...

The week ahead: 40 hours, Cardinal Arinze and Courage

many churches will hold forty hours’ devotions in the days leading up to the solemnity of corpus christi on sunday, june 23. the devotion co...

Overlooked: Five bishops issue 'declaration of truths'

what happened? cardinal raymond burke and three bishops from kazakhstan have signed a document aiming to affirm traditional church teaching ...

The big story: Vatican department speaks out against 'gender theory'

what happened? the vatican’s education department has issued a new document on gender issues, saying that the trend towards transgender iden...

Hurrah for the language of prostitutes, beggars, pimps – and bishops

the vatican unveiled its latest innovation last saturday: a news bulletin spoken entirely in latin. hebdomada papae (“the pope’s week”) is a...

The Catholic Herald

Chartres Pentecost pilgrimage draws 14,000

more than 14,000 catholics walked 62 miles from paris to chartres cathedral in three days in an annual pentecost pilgrimage of prayer and pe...

Courtney Grogan/CNA

US bishops vote to create hotline for reporting abuse by bishops

a nationwide third-party system for receiving confidential reports of "certain complaints" against bishops took a step closer to being imple...

Dennis Sadowski

The Old Mass ban will hurt the Order of Malta's charism

the grand master of the order of malta has forbidden the extraordinary form: as of monday, we chaplains of the order may only offer the mass...

Fr Edmund Montgomery

Former slave Fr Augustus Tolton moves one step closer to sainthood

fr augustus tolton has been named “venerable” after pope francis recognized his “heroic virtues,” moving him one step closer to sainthood. t...

Aaron Benavides

Notre-Dame to celebrate first post-fire Mass on Saturday

notre-dame cathedral has announced it will celebrate its first mass on june 15, two months after a fire damaged the iconic french church. th...

Aaron Benavides