Europe

Should Cardinals be able to vote in conclave if they don't reside in Rome?

german cardinal walter brandmüller - a conservative who has criticised the synodal path - has asked that the right to vote in a conclave be ...
The Catholic Herald

The restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral was a struggle for the soul of France

on sunday, notre dame de paris will be re-opened, re-ordered after the inferno that overcame her. as darkness fell over paris on 15 april 20...
Gavin Ashenden

On Pilgrimage With: Sir Stephen Hough

where would you go? probably assisi. i know what has become known as “the franciscan spirit” is really a later, softer invention or adaptati...
The Catholic Herald

Rubens and the Classical world

rubens: picturing antiquity davide gasparotto, jeffrey spier, anne t woollett getty publications, £30, 192 pages this handsomely-produced bo...
Robert Beddard

Pope in face of demographic winter: without an improved birth rate, Italy has no future

pope francis lamented italy’s drastically declining birth rate at the opening of an initiative by the forum of family associations. since th...
Tommaso Pozzi

Take a leaf out of the US Catholic playbook: Campus ministry at our universities can help save the Church

catholics under 24 years old are precipitating the decline of the church, according to highly-quoted research carried out by the pew researc...
Katie Ascough

"Jesus walks for me": Pope Francis leads Stations of the Cross in Lisbon

lisbon – in an off-the-cuff speech to young people praying the “way of the cross” with him in lisbon friday, pope francis said the cross is ...
Elise Ann Allen

Reimagining Saint Sebastian: from Pretorian Guard to artistic lodestar

today the church commemorates saint sebastian, a 3rd-century member of the pretorian guard of the pagan emperor diocletian, who, on discover...
Peter Ogwen Jones

Rupnik dismissed from Jesuits

the priest and artist father marko rupnik, accused of the physical and psychological abuse of numerous religious sisters, was dismissed from...
Hannah Brockhaus

Diary: A spiritual retreat in the heart of Sussex

this easter was compressed for me, in that from the middle of holy week till my alarm clock rang on monday 1 april, it was crammed with acti...
Steve de la Bedoyere