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‘Ireland is led by fools': an interview with John Waters

Catholic writer John Waters believes his country is blighted by mediocrity – but ‘a better day will dawn’
Michael Duggan

A strange response

catholics were starting to wonder whether the vatican would ever respond to archbishop carlo maria viganò’s passionate and sometimes ramblin...
The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣ vatican breaks silence on mccarrick case what happened? pope francis has ordered a “thorough study” of vatican files relating to archbisho...
Staff writers

The best of the web

✣ highlights from the week online verifying the bones of st ambrose a forensic team has analysed the relics of 4th-century st ambrose. grego...
Staff writers

In brief

philadelphia keep ‘lgbtq’ out of church documents, says archbishop archbishop charles chaput of philadelphia has told the youth synod that “...
Staff writers

Papal telescopes: Heavens above

the vatican observatory is being opened up to the public when people ask why the vatican has an observatory, one jesuit priest says it’s bec...
Carol Glatz

Lay investigation: Reporting on Their Eminences

catholics are divided by the prospect of an inquiry into the college of cardinals few would deny that this is the worst crisis the american ...
Michael Warren Davis

India: Bishops on trial

out of nowhere, catholics face a leadership crisis on two fronts the catholic church in india has just faced one of the most challenging sum...
Saptarshi Ray

The elephant in the synod

amid procedural changes and doctrinal tension, one issue hangs over this month’s meeting in rome hilaire belloc once remarked that the catho...
Christopher R. Altieri

Fr Raymond J de Souza: Right saint, wrong place

i will be in rome for the canonisation of blessed oscar romero this sunday, but i wish i weren’t – in rome, that is. i would have preferred ...
Fr Raymond de Souza