Catholic Church

Bishop: abortion is not a ‘core Canadian value’

the head of the canadian bishops’ conference has criticised canada’s foreign minister for saying that abortion rights are a cornerstone of t...

Vatican lays down law on gluten-free hosts

the vatican has reminded bishops that completely gluten-free hosts are invalid. low-gluten hosts, on the other hand, are valid for people wh...

Archbishop must go, says coadjutor

the coadjutor bishop of guam has said that the island’s archbishop should not return to lead the diocese regardless of the outcome of a vati...

In brief

priest stabbed to death in mexico city suburb a 71-year-old priest was murdered in his home during a robbery in a suburb of mexico city last...

Does anyone care for our priests?

earlier this month it was reported that eight priests in ireland had committed suicide in the past 10 years. the association of catholic pri...

The poisoning of American Catholicism

in february 2016, pope francis set off a media firestorm when he took an unprecedented shot at then presidential candidate donald trump. “a ...

Michael Warren Davis

Can anything stop Catholic infighting?

my first parish priest was a little old man with pebble spectacles who looked like a gorgeously coloured beetle as he bent over the altar in...

Damian Thompson

The last night of a spiritual titan

"a giant”: that is how a high-ranking prelate in the roman curia describes joachim meisner, the german cardinal who died suddenly last week....

Our ‘Nonno’ never forgot his roots

my grandfather, charles forte, came with his parents to scotland from italy as a child at a time when that was more unusual. he hailed from ...

Triumph of the box-tickers

the old soviet system of over-bureaucratisation did not die with the ussr; it transmigrated into britain’s higher education system. when i s...