Holy See

Whither the Mass of Vatican II?

The Mass that concluded the Council reflected the modest reforms the bishops endorsed, yet the liturgical changes that followed soon moved far beyond their intentions.
Dom Alcuin Reid

Advent: The Forgotten Season of Penitence

Advent holds a unique tension: joyful expectation and necessary repentance. Recovering this balance may be the key to rediscovering the wonder we have lost.
Fr Gavan Jennings

The Second Vatican Council is not to blame

The Second Vatican Council is now 60 years old. But for all the disputes, real rupture came from an inadequately catechised clergy
Gavin Ashenden

Pope Leo XIV and the return of a global papacy

As Pope Leo signals a desire to visit Algeria and engages quietly in Middle Eastern diplomacy, his in-flight remarks reveal a papacy rediscovering its global vocation
The Catholic Herald

Latin Mass restrictions reveal a deeper crisis

Despite episcopal sympathy for the old rite, the Church continues to govern the Latin Mass through temporary permissions
Niwa Limbu

Why young converts are flocking to traditional Christianity

Traditional Catholics are driving unexpected growth while liberal churches continue to collapse
Tom Colsy

Nigeria’s silent martyrs

Nigeria is now the deadliest country in the world to be a Christian, with thousands murdered and kidnapped each year.
Thomas Edwards

The Patriarch of Constantinople is asking more than Rome can give

Patriarch Bartholomew’s conditions for unity present serious problems for Catholics.
Niwa Limbu

The unexpected guides who led me to the Catholic faith

The two modern thinkers, a Catholic historian and a secular psychiatrist, that led Gavin Ashenden to Catholicism.
Gavin Ashenden

Pope Leo at the blue mosque

Pope Leo’s most recent journey showed a pontiff concerned with Christian unity, not secular optics.
Thomas Edwards