Catholic Church

st james’s, spanish place, is definitely my favourite church in london. its elegant vaults are reminiscent of a french gothic cathedral. its...

Fr Dominic Allain

the souls in purgatory are our brothers and sisters, and there are several simple ways we can help to lessen their sufferings and speed them...

The Catholic Herald

cardinal joseph zen, emeritus of hong kong, was in rome earlier this month to hand-deliver a letter to pope francis about the escalating per...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Last week, the Vatican dramatically blocked the US bishops’ proposals to tackle the crisis. What happens next?

Michael Warren Davis and Damian Thompson

i live on both sides of a border. not a geographical one, but one which is often a dividing line between two groups. i was raised a conserva...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

i have dinner at the travellers club in london’s pall mall with an author who has written widely on both the church of england and the royal...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

one of europe’s strangest church-state relationships may soon come to an end if a catholic bishop is forced to abdicate as co-prince of ando...

Jonathan Luxmoore

it is cold and gloomy when i ask one of the syriac orthodox youths in the swedish city of södertälje to describe to me what the past year ha...

Filipe D'Avillez

love him or hate him – and opinion is strikingly divided on that point – raymond arroyo (pictured) is the king of the catholic airwaves. lay...

Michael Warren Davis

when henry sire published his book the dictator pope last year, he knew it could bring reprisals. indeed, it was originally published pseudo...

Dan Hitchens