Catholic Church

Why Britain has a problem with adoption

we are accustomed to seeing photographs of american film stars with their adopted children. madonna has four, angelina jolie has three and m...

The Nordic Newman

before the advent of lutheranism, the finnish people had been catholic for about 400 years. a hymn in the finnish lutheran hymnal contains t...

In Rome, tradition is doing good business

when i return to rome, i feel a foolish mixture of excitement and pride, as though the city belongs to me. or rather, as though i belong to ...

Matthew Schmitz

The Jesuit who stood up to Moscow

"to hell with moscow!” it is manifestly unfair to sum up thus the long and distinguished academic career and ecclesial life of fr robert taf...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The pope, the general and Europe’s tragedy

While Field Marshal Haig was worrying about Catholic 'taint', Benedict XV was assiduously seeking peace between warring nations

Allan Mallinson

Diary: by John Springs

it was varnishing day at the studio this week. not in the royal academy sense, but rather slapping on varnish that warms and softens the coo...

Greece: On the precipice

will the monks of mount athos side with moscow or constantinople? the rift between the russian orthodox church and the patriarchate of const...

Anti-Semitism: Forged by fire

persecution has brought america’s catholics and jews together on october 27, a white nationalist named robert bowers stormed the tree of lif...

Michael Warren Davis

Cornwall: An unlikely Catholic outpost

a parish is thriving against the odds in england’s ‘wild west’ fishermen were the first disciples called by jesus, according to the gospels,...

Pope Francis: Attention deficit

the media are overlooking some of the pontiff’s most important initiatives from the start of his pontificate, pope francis has thrown his we...

Christopher R. Altieri