Holy See

The arrest of Cardinal Zen: A new low for China's 'brutal' Communist regime

arresting a 90 year-old cardinal marks a new low for a chinese communist party regime that had already sunk to shocking levels of inhumanity...
B Rogers

A requiem for a Church

a people’s church: a history of the church of england by jeremy morris profile books, £30, 480 pages the defining and unhappy image of the r...
William Davage

Vatican clears Polish cardinal of negligence after abuse probe

the vatican has ended an investigation into allegations that polish cardinal stanisław dziwisz failed to investigate claims of clerical sex ...
Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis shares 'apprehension' over German synodal path, says senior Vatican cardinal

a top cardinal at the vatican has confirmed pope francis’ apprehension about germany’s “synodal path,” cardinal kurt koch  said that cr...
CNA Staff

After the FSSP’s dispensation from Traditiones Custodes, how firm is the ground on which the Ecclesia Dei institutes rest?

reeling from two blows to liturgical traditionalists in july and december 2021, the priestly fraternity of saint peter (fssp) attained a deg...
Tom Colsy

Vatican: Teachers in Church schools have duty to uphold Catholic ethos

the vatican’s education congregation has published a document responding to conflicts over the interpretation of the concept of “catholic id...
Hannah Brockhaus

‘A radical expression of faith’

last year was the 500th anniversary of the battle of pamplona, the occasion when a cannonball shattered the leg of a basque gentleman soldie...
Melanie McDonagh

The power of three

it is traditional to accept new catechumens (those being prepared to come into full communion with the roman catholic church) during the eas...
charlie-hart

Putin, Kirill and the Vatican

there are many who see in patriarch kirill’s reluctance to condemn the russian invasion of ukraine, evidence of caesaropapism. certainly, it...
Mark Jenkins

Reigning cats and dogs

you mean ‘exhumation’.” “no, ‘excavation’.” “but a jawbone – that must be proof of some locked-up nun from the old days when they were up to...
Anthony Cazalet