Catholic Church

The remarkable story behind Our Lady's prophecies from Ecuador

it was 5 am, january 24, 2018; the cobbled streets of quito were still dark and deserted when fireworks began to shoot up from a church on l...

The tragic college footballer who showed how Catholicism and sport can mix

to rebuild the church after the french revolution, abbe louis lafosse founded the institute of christian education at echauffour in orne, fr...

Stephen Schmalhofer

The Favourite is riddled with inaccuracies. So who was the real Queen Anne?

the film the favourite is an early runner for oscar glory, and casts a spotlight on the life and times of queen anne, the last reigning stua...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/02/19

the chinese government has recognised another underground bishop . bishop richard williamson has lost an appeal to the european court of hum...

Virginia bishops condemn governor’s support for in-labor abortion bill

bishop michael burbidge of the diocese of arlington and bishop barry c. knestout of the diocese of richmond issued statements on thursday co...

Christine Rousselle & CNA

Catholics raise $36,000 scholarship fund for Nick Sandmann

catholics from across america have raised $36,100 for a scholarship fund for nick sandmann and his two younger siblings. members of the grou...

Two weeks after Covington, the post-mortem continues

there’s something ironic about journalists criticising children with an enormous megaphone and yet maintaining that they are on the side of ...

King Charles I, Founding Father

what was “washington’s birthday” is quickly approaching us: now often redubbed “presidents’ day”, the repackaging allows us to forget “linco...

Charles Coulombe

Dear Fr Rutler: I don't like giving the sign of peace. Is that wrong?

dear father rutler, i don’t like giving the sign of the peace at mass. it seems to me like a needless distraction. i can glad-hand mrs smith...

Fr George Rutler

In today's Church, ugliness is finally in decline

i was in the fitzwilliam museum, cambridge, last week, nosing around a sarcophagus, when a man with a beard asked if i was who he thought i ...