Holy See

even keen rome observers missed the speech that pope francis gave to the pontifical council for promoting christian unity last week. that is...

The Catholic Herald

✣ pope francis defends deal with china what happened? pope francis defended his deal with china, first to journalists on the papal plane and...

Staff writers

rome bishops: meeting with pope was ‘remarkable and intimate’ the bishops of england and wales have described their two-hour meeting with po...

Staff writers

the tone of press coverage of pope francis is changing last week was another rough week for pope francis. in fact, it’s been an increasingly...

Christopher R. Altieri

what is the truth about the case of cardinal murphy-o’connor? the claims are shocking. a cardinal is accused of child abuse; his diocese is ...

Dan Hitchens

even loyal bishops and insiders are dismayed by apparent inaction on mccarrick to the surprise of many catholic commentators, cardinal timot...

Michael Warren Davis

with the nation’s only church closed, the faithful must pray alone last year somalia’s only church was forced to close. st anthony of padua ...

Fredrick Nzwili

we arrived at the residenza madri pie, five minutes’ walk from st peter’s basilica, on sunday, in time for supper and an orientation session...

Bishop Philip Egan

participants in the synod of bishops which started this week in rome were appointed by various means. national bishops’ conferences elected ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

i helped to oversee safeguarding in england and wales. i was left wondering if some bishops really ‘get it’ when pope francis wrote his rece...

Danny Sullivan