Holy See

The best of the web: Hilary Mantel, a brave father, and Salvini

how st thomas more lost his reputation the iona institute published a talk it recently hosted, by richard rex, professor of reformation hist...
Staff writers

The week ahead: Sea Sunday, Crystal Cathedral, Carmelite Comeback

this sunday, july 14, is sea sunday in britain, a day when christians pray for seafarers. the catholic charity apostleship of the sea has re...
Staff writers

Overlooked: Viganò alleges Vatican scandal 'surpassing McCarrick'

what happened? archbishop carlo maria viganò has made new allegations against senior vatican officials. the former vatican nuncio to the uni...
Staff writers

What's stopping Pope Francis going to Moscow?

there is one man who always keeps the holy father waiting. three times in a row now he has arrived conspicuously late for a private audience...
The Catholic Herald

How Nagasaki's Catholics survived persecution and the bomb

ashort walk from the entrance of urakami cathedral in nagasaki there is a boulder that’s big enough to seat one person. to anyone walking by...
Shaun McAfee

The Catholic school that would make Socrates proud

thank god for homeschoolers. as america’s public school system continues to collapse, and even parochial schools grow more expensive as they...
Michael Warren Davis

Archbishop Fisher: what paralysis taught me about euthanasia

before you say “he would say that, he’s a bishop,” please hear me out. when it comes to calls for euthanasia, i get it, i really do. a few y...
Archbishop Anthony Fisher

What Putin wants from the Pope

russian president vladimir putin must have been nervous. pope francis’s foreign policy has been agreeable to moscow. but ominous clouds were...
Fr Raymond de Souza

The booming monasteries that are running out of cells

among the most startling aspects of the post-vatican ii era of the catholic church has been the dramatic decline of vocations to the religio...
Jim Graves

Diary: The Vatican is surprisingly good at cricket

i have spent the past several days in rome at the head of a rather wonderful cricket team, the stonyhurst gentlemen’s xi. the team is compri...
Stephen Withnell