Catholic Church

Newman's most savage critic was a herald of the sexual revolution

as the catholic church proceeds to declare john henry newman a saint, some will try to present him as a queer icon. andrew sullivan has alre...
Matthew Schmitz

Behind the abuse crisis, a crisis of governance

the sexual abuse summit’s second full day will be february 22, feast of the chair of st peter, the liturgical commemoration of the petrine o...
Fr Raymond de Souza

How to become a Doctor of the Church

anyone aspiring to become a doctor of the church requires an impressive cv. the official criteria are a major contribution to christian thou...
Jonathan Wright

Newman should be the next Doctor of the Church

canonisations vary greatly in their significance. the canonisation of mother teresa of calcutta, who devoted her life to the care of the dyi...
Fr Ian Ker

Susan Boyle, lunchtime Mass and the Dramatists Club: a week in theatreland

ten years ago i devised a stage musical based on the film priscilla queen of the desert . we developed the script in a workshop in melbourne...
Allan Scott

Think German Catholicism is in decline? Look at the latest figures on Protestantism

in germany, the crucible of the reformation 500 years ago, the country’s former protestant majority now makes up less than a third of the po...
Jon Anderson

France's churches are under attack, but the establishment doesn't seem to care

during the french revolution’s worst years, some of the most visible expressions of violence involved attacks on the church, which was perce...
Samuel Gregg

A case that suggests we are on the verge of a new liturgy war

fr edwin dwyer looks like he stepped out of a time machine. with his shaved head, thick red beard and piercing blue eyes, he may very well h...
Michael Warren Davis

Truth and fiction in a new Vatican exposé

in the closet of the vatican: power, homosexuality, hypocrisy is the english title of the major book by the french sociologist and gay right...
Christopher R. Altieri

The abuse summit begins amid turmoil in Rome

the eyes of the world were already going to be on rome this week, where some of the most senior church leaders have gathered for a four-day ...
Christopher R. Altieri