Catholic Church

John McCain's funeral marked the last rites of a dying class

Funerals aren't just about the dead. The living hijack them

The Tyburn Nuns' surprising new community: meet the Tyburn Monks

The Tyburn Nuns were startled when two priests asked them to create a male order

Now or never

archbishop charles chaput has urged the pope to delay next month’s youth synod in rome. speaking at a conference last week, the archbishop o...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣ viganò and papal aides clash over kim davis saga what happened? the row over the testimony of archbishop carlo maria viganò entered new te...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online the apron our lady made her own at catholic exchange, fr william saunders told the story of the scapular –...

In brief

washington, dc ‘we need answers’: catholic women appeal to pope francis more than 30,000 catholic women have signed a letter to pope francis...

Roman Curia: Five years on tenterhooks

officials are adrift as the vatican reels from one crisis to the next back in january, the question on everyone’s mind was: will the curial ...

Christopher R. Altieri

Viganò letter: Disunited front

the pope’s american allies don’t seem to be wholly in harmony since pope francis’s election, the us conference of catholic bishops has incre...

Michael Warren Davis

The world’s salvation

amid the darkness in the world and the church, there is one constant source of light it is hard to imagine a more pressing priority than ren...

Bishop Mark Davies

From ‘Easter people’ to Eucharistic people

the bishops want to encourage the great revival of eucharistic adoration in our parishes this weekend somewhere in the region of 10,000 pilg...

Bishop Robert Byrne