Catholic Church

Manhunt begins in France after woman is killed at care home for priests and nuns

A masked gunman is suspected of stabbing an elderly woman to death

Associated Press

Submitting dubia is a standard part of Church life. It's not unreasonable to expect a clear answer

Church doctrine and canonical legislation can be complicated to navigate. Dubia seek to end confusion on all sorts of topics

Stephen Bullivant

Pope welcomes Vietnamese president to the Vatican

The 15-minute meeting follows a steady improvement in relations between the two states

Catholic News Service

Catholics everywhere should be grateful for the four cardinals' appeal

Abandoning a belief in absolute moral norms would be a catastrophe for the Church

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Houses of Parliament lit up in red for persecuted Christians

Buildings across the country were lit up to mark 'Red Wednesday'

Madeleine Teahan

Standoff at the Vatican

last week was one of the strangest in rome in recent memory. it began with the news that four cardinals had asked pope francis to answer fiv...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣   pope accuses amoris critics of legalism what happened? pope francis has said the bishops who have criticised amoris laetitia suffer...

Rise in extremism ‘is destabilising the West’

islamist “hyper-extremism” could destabilise the west, according to a report that studies religious freedom in all 196 of the world’s countr...

Church goes to High Court over school admissions

the church is to mount a challenge in the high court against a ruling by the government’s schools adjudicator on admission policy to oversub...

Francis recalls harrowing Year of Mercy visits

meeting a mother mourning a newborn baby and visiting young women rescued from forced prostitution are moments from the year of mercy that r...