Catholic News

What happens when celebrities walk to Rome

last year, in the bbc two series the road to santiago, a group of celebrities walked the famous camino pilgrimage across spain from biarritz...

The satirist who illuminated the strange world of the 1970s

one of the handicaps of old age is the loss, one by one, of those few commentators and journalists to whom one has long looked for guidance ...

Richard Ingrams

The Church's life-and-death struggle with Santa Muerte

to the great consternation of the church, over the past 17 years veneration of a mexican folk saint that personifies death has become the fa...

Kate Kingsbury and Andrew Chesnut

Archbishop Gregory is a natural choice - up to a point

archbishop wilton gregory is not cardinal joseph tobin. for that reason alone, many conservative-minded catholics will be relieved to learn ...

Michael Warren Davis

How religious weddings went out of fashion in Britain

the number of religious weddings in england and wales has hit the lowest level on record, the latest figures have revealed. according to dat...

Fr Alistair Jones, OP

World News: From Chile to Chad

washington, dc students vote for pornography ban students at the catholic university of america have voted to ban pornographic websites from...

The week in quotations

"we are making progress and i’m very hopeful" british foreign secretary jeremy hunt on talks with pakistan over asia bibi’s releas...

Overlooked: Doctors resign in row over assisted suicide

what happened? three members of britain’s royal college of physicians have resigned their positions after the organisation changed its stanc...

The big story: Archbishop Gregory appointed to Washington

what happened? archbishop wilton gregory of atlanta has been appointed as archbishop of washington, dc. he succeeds cardinal donald wue...

Why Benedict's intervention is so important

what is at the root of the crisis which strikes so powerfully at the credibility of the faith? we are all waiting for an answer to this ques...