Holy See

farmers from across italy brought their animals to the vatican for a blessing thursday, turning the street outside st. peter’s square into a...

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

critics of pope francis want his pontificate “to end as soon as possible” , cardinal walter kasper has said. the vatican has released an onl...

Luke Coppen

on january 7, the washington post reported that in 2005 opus dei paid the astonishing sum of $977,000 to a woman who accused fr john mcclosk...

Mark Benbow

mani (216-274) was an iranian who lived during the transition of power in persia from the foreign parthians to the native sassanid dynasty –...

Charles Coulombe

cryptic across 7 girl getting support at new church is a token of peace (5,6) 8 unexpected drink after a mother gets bargains here? (5,3) 9 ...

Alun Evans

this week we encounter a liturgical unicorn. we shall celebrate the second sunday in ordinary time in the ordinary form of the roman rite, a...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

jesus in asia by rs sugirtharajah harvard university press, 311pp, £21.95/$30 the quest for the historical jesus has been an obsession of we...

Jonathan Wright

fellini’s eternal rome by alessandro carrera bloomsbury, 186pp, £65/$80 no film conjured so memorably the flashbulb glitz and moral darkness...

Ian Thomson

it’s not ‘loopy’ to explore homeopathy sir – in his article about prince charles’s role in relation to a disestablished church of england (f...

The Catholic Herald

two weeks after long-delayed elections were finally held in the democratic republic of the congo (drc) – the country with the largest cathol...

Jonathan Luxmoore