Europe

Bring on the Jubilee of Pizza Makers!

rome – though it was largely frowned out by the verdict on medjugorje released thursday, on the same day the vatican also published an initi...

Van Gogh's swirling intensity finally gets a viewing at National Gallery

"the painter of the future is a colourist such as there hasn’t been before,” vincent van gogh wrote to his brother theo shortly after he mov...

David V Barrett

FEATURE: Discovering the lesser known corners of Catholic England

i have long been collecting the macmillan highways and byways series, published between 1898 and 1948. each book covers a different area of ...

Fr Nicholas Schofield

International dispute breaks out in Rome over ownership of Spanish Steps and iconic churches

rome – while pope francis was out of town in asia and oceania, a mini-tempest erupted in rome after a french court appeared to assert that f...

Can a skyscraper represent love? Pope Francis says it can in Singapore

singapore – surrounded by a city-state whose urban core contains more than 100 high-rise structures straining towards the sky, pope francis ...

Elise Ann Allen

Robert F Kennedy is bringing Desert Father mysticism to US election – it's needed

there have been many times in both the recent uk parliamentary election, and the forthcoming us presidential election, when i have been remi...

Augustinian friars return to Walsingham at Catholic National Shrine for first time since Reformation

three african friars are coming to the catholic national shrine and basilica of our lady at walsingham, where they will assist and serve the...

The March for Life in London shone a beam of light for a nation lost in fog of moral relativism

in 2010 the guardian newspaper published an article entitled “pope gives top job to abortion hardliner”. pope benedict xvi, the article clai...

Katherine Bennett

Vatican bank's ban on married couples puts latter-day ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in a bind

getting married to another employee at the vatican bank is now a fireable offence. the regulation is designed to combat nepotism and corrupt...

The Catholic Herald

Another historic French church goes up in flames; suspect arrested

the church of the immaculate conception in the french town of saint-omer has been all but destroyed by a fire that began early in the mornin...