Catholic Church

Mother Teresa: 'as gentle as a dove and as cunning as a snake'

A book, Prophetess of our Time, captures the saint's personality by speaking to two of her priest-friends

Francis Phillips

Gunmen wearing suicide vests attack Christian area in Pakistan

Four militants stormed a Christian neighbourhood near Peshawar but were kept at bay by a single security officer with a rifle

Associated Press

Will the Vatican's new dicastery stand up for the unborn?

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has easily the most political portfolio in the curia

Christianity without nostalgia

In my journey to the Catholic Church, I realised that liberal Christianity and religious cultural conservatism have a common flaw

Mother Teresa refused to be silenced

How could Mother Teresa be so universally loved when she resisted all the progressive trends?

Fr Raymond de Souza

A saint for the struggling

mother teresa lived the latter part of her life in the global media glare. but the secrets of her soul remained invisible to all but a few. ...

The Catholic Herald

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online abdication anxiety vatican commentator sandro magister reported on two eminent critics of benedict ...

The big story of the past seven days

✣   trump adviser provokes row with catholics what happened? donald trump’s presidential campaign ceo has accused us catholics of only ...

In brief

mother teresa booklet sent to surrey parishes a booklet about mother teresa will be distributed in all surrey parishes this weekend. mother ...

Boost for seminary whistleblowers

the trustees of ireland’s national seminary have agreed to bring in a policy to protect whistleblowers after serious allegations were made a...