Catholic Church

who is archbishop peña? pope francis has finally named a new deputy for the powerful vatican secretariat of state. he had rendered the post ...

Christopher R. Altieri

the church is preparing for battle over compulsory organ donation earlier this year joe ball and his family made a 500-mile round trip from ...

Simon Caldwell

the archbishop of washington’s public relations strategy backfires six dioceses, 300 priests and 1,000 victims. those numbers were splashed ...

Michael Warren Davis

in the wake of terror attacks, the future for catholics is anything but certain almost three months after suicide bombers attacked three chu...

Benedict Rogers

over the weekend, i made a pilgrimage to combe florey, the somerset village and house where evelyn, and then auberon, waugh, lived. as a chi...

Harry Mount

pope francis could hardly be arriving at a more dramatic moment. in the aftermath of the abortion referendum, ireland seems to be wholly set...

Michael Duggan

pope francis will be greeted by large and enthusiastic crowds when he visits dublin to attend the 2018 world meeting of families (wmof). the...

Jon Anderson

in this summer of shame, how should bishops speak about scandals of sexual predation in the clergy? there have been some remarkable failures...

Fr Raymond de Souza

shortly after chris bain was appointed cafod director in 2003, the charity experienced one of what he calls its “wobbles”. the aid agency ca...

Luke Coppen

my first reaction when i heard about the deaths of jay austin and lauren geoghegan was “what a pair of bananas”. they were killed while cycl...

Tim Stanley