Catholic Church

Cardinal: Britain won’t give ISIS sex slaves sanctuary

by only resettling refugees from syria, britain is unfairly denying support for the victims of isis across the border in iraq, cardinal vinc...

Let’s rethink Confirmation, says bishop

the bishop of portsmouth has called for a new approach to the sacrament of confirmation in his diocese, saying that young people need to be ...

Dubia cardinal: this is about eternal salvation

one of the four cardinals who have asked the pope to clarify his apostolic exhortation on the family, amoris laetitia has said that it matte...

Storm over Maltese bishops’ Communion guidelines

malta’s bishops have said that remarried people should receive communion if they think they are at peace with god. in a new document, “crite...

Pope tells young: make sure your bishops hear you

pope francis has asked young people to tell him, their bishops and other pastors about their hopes and struggles and criticisms to help info...

Knight appeals against dismissal

the ousted ‘foreign minister’ of the ancient lay catholic order, the order of malta, has appealed against his suspension to the knights’ int...

The first leader of Opus Dei’s new era

after st josemaría escrivá founded opus dei, he took care to ensure its future. the organisation’s big idea was to help people in ordinary l...

Sir Edward Leigh: The ‘integration tsar’ who excludes Catholics

social isolation, disengagement and separation are very real problems in today’s britain. whereas once we had much more of a common culture ...

Sir Edward Leigh

The enemy of my enemy

on the night of barack obama’s election in 2008, the princeton campus erupted in ecstatic shrieks and sighs. i had not voted for obama, and ...

Matthew Schmitz

Rumours, leaks and dodgy dossiers

when did the word “dossier” become so sinister? if you’re eager to ratchet up the tension or create a sense of skulduggery then the other op...

Jonathan Wright