Catholic Church

Morning Catholic must-reads: 14/07/17

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Vatican charges two former hospital officials with stealing money to furnish cardinal's apartment

The two former senior officials are accused of diverting 422,000 euros from the Vatican's Bambino Gesù hospital

Associated Press

Vatican-backed journal attacks American conservative Catholics

US conservative Catholics have formed an 'ecumenism of hate' with Evangelical Protestants, Civiltà Cattolica has claimed

Can anything stop Catholic infighting?

Liturgical squabbles, doctrinal rows, vicious public spats: the Church is once again gripped by a 1970s-style factionalism

Damian Thompson

Death of the ‘airport bishop’

when the new archbishop of milan stood up to give his first speech to his new diocese last friday he wore a crumpled jacket over a faded cle...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣   world gripped by battle over charlie gard what happened? pope francis and donald trump drew the attention of the world’s media to 1...

The best of the blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online the giant who spoke for st john paul ii joaquin navarro-valls, st john paul ii’s spokesman for many years,...

Traditionalists save second church in Preston

the bishop of lancaster has entrusted a beautiful pugin church in preston to a traditionalist institute. the grade-ii listed church of st th...

Ordinations in Scotland reach 20-year high

the scottish church has seen a surge in ordinations, with 12 priests ordained this year, the largest number in two decades. bishop john keen...

Cardinal criticises Pope over sudden dismissal

cardinal gerhard müller has criticised the way in which pope francis dismissed him as head of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith...