Europe

Pope visits Ukrainian refugee children in Rome hospital

pope francis has made a surprise visit to ukrainian refugee children being treated in the bambino gesù children's hospital in rome. the chil...
Courtney Mares

Ghosts of Poland's past

in school in poland, i was taught about two world wars on the european continent. i never imagined that in the 21st century, i would be...
Ksawery Danilowicz

A year after Pope Francis's historic visit, Iraq's Christians face new threats

there can't be many priests who celebrate mass in an empty church. but the archbishop of mosul, mgr najeeb michaeel, has little choice. most...
John Cookson

“Never in our history have a million people entered Poland in just 10 days"

a tale of good people with a lump in his throat, the exhausted ukrainian president says at a press conference: "i don't know who could be do...
Marcin Wiklo

Ukraine: "This is outrageous. It is outrageous before Almighty God, it is outrageous before the world."

the lord god says this: ‘my plans for you are for peace, not for disaster; to give you a future, a future filled with hope.’ ‘my plans for y...
Archbishop John Wilson

From temptation to Transfiguration

on the first two sundays of lent we always hear the same gospel stories, of the temptations of christ in the wilderness and of the transfigu...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Reading through the Lenten desert

graham greene’s novel, the heart of the matter, begins with an aphorism from charles péguy: “le pécheur est au coeur même chrétienté.... nul...
Ken Craycraft

On Pilgrimage with Sir Bill Cash

where would you go?  i would go to much wenlock and wenlock abbey because it is the site of saint milburga, who was an eighth-century a...
The Catholic Herald

Keeping the past alive

i have been reading the golden apple of samarkand by lala wilbraham, a wonderful new book which has evaded the reviewers, perhaps because it...
Olenka Hamilton

More to St Paul’s than religion

in the shadow of st paul’s cathedral: the churchyard that shaped london by margaret willes yale university press, pp. 320, £25 the romanists...
Robert Gray