Catholic Church

britain gains its first ‘personal parish’ for the extraordinary form “as a general rule,” the code of canon law says, “a parish is to be ter...

Dan Hitchens

bishops are enlisting lay people for a spiritual crusade against corruption the ember days recall an age when the rhythms of human life were...

Michael Warren Davis

a row about church closures has prompted one politician to leave catholicism last month the medieval church of st walburga in the dutch city...

Mark De Vries

i am writing this on the feast of our lady of walsingham, overlooking the terrace of villa palazzola outside rome, which offers stunning vie...

Michael Hodges

when i met the senior russian orthodox official metropolitan hilarion in lisbon last week, i asked him about the current crisis in the ortho...

Filipe D'Avillez

for centuries, the archbishops of constantinople could credibly claim to be the “ecumenical patriarch”. their see was the “new rome”, centre...

Fr Mark Drew

the abdication of pope benedict xvi, an event the magnitude of which is difficult to exaggerate, returned to the news last week with the rel...

Fr Raymond de Souza

five candidates for sainthood – all europeans – present an antidote to a national malaise we americans are a fiercely nationalistic people –...

Charles Coulombe

last week, the vatican signed a concordat with a totalitarian regime. the chinese government, which has harassed and tortured millions of ch...

Matthew Schmitz

it must be approaching 50 years since my eldest son accused me of not being like other fathers. his criticism was “other fathers answer thei...

Quentin de la Bedoyere