Catholic Church

An unlikely intervention by England’s cultural luminaries rescued the Tridentine Mass from threatened extinction

Joseph Shaw

The youth synod’s final report resoundingly endorses ‘synodality’. This could be a positive step – once bishops have worked out what it means

Fr Mark Drew

in one of europe’s poorest countries, one thing is still doing well: christianity arguably no european country is in a worse economic and po...

Filip Mazurczak

why did the vatican oust bishop martin holley? on october 24, pope francis removed bishop martin holley from the diocese of memphis without ...

Michael Warren Davis

a new degree in catholic social teaching is now accepting applicants a few years ago, there was an unexpected wave of interest in catholic s...

Dan Hitchens

african bishops don’t share their western counterparts’ doom and gloom some general assemblies of the synod of bishops have been more closel...

Christopher R. Altieri

mundelein us bishops to hold retreat on abuse crisis pope francis’s personal preacher will lead a retreat for american bishops early next ye...

Staff writers

as the youth synod entered its final week, there was an air of optimism among the bishops. they had spent almost a month listening to the co...

The Catholic Herald

since his election in 2013, pope francis has often expressed the desire for a more “synodal” style of church life, and commentators on catho...

Fr Mark Drew

soho in the eighties by christopher howse, bloomsbury, 266pp, £20 soho in the 1970s, with its strip joints and steamed-up caffs, was an exci...

Ian Thomson