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✣ archbishop’s letter stuns the church what happened? archbishop carlo maria viganò, former nuncio to the united states, accused pope franci...

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Vatican: The halo boom

is it too soon to canonise 20th-century popes? while they live, all popes are styled “holiness”. the mode of address is a sort of “official”...

Christopher R. Altieri

Viganò letter: After the explosion

the former nuncio’s intervention will change the american church on saturday, the national catholic register published a “testimony” written...

Michael Warren Davis

Walk this way

does a boom in pilgrimages signal a religious revival? that’s doubtful above the northern french town of lisieux, a vast white basilica rise...

Jonathan Luxmoore

Diary: by Andrew Cusack

near la sapienza in rome – the modern campus of an old university – there is a church dedicated to an english philosopher, statesman and mar...

John Paul I: How the Catholic Herald saw him

september 1, 1978 the more we get to know pope john paul the more we like him. he was first described as the unknown pope but this merely go...

The Catholic Herald

Remembering the forgotten pope

we still don’t know much about john paul i, who was elected – and died – forty years ago forty years ago this week, cardinal albino luciani ...

Damian Thompson

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A diplomat sparks a war

the blistering indictment of pope francis by archbishop carlo maria viganò, published while the holy father was on a difficult trip to irela...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Archbishop of chaos

archbishop ngô đình thục left havoc in his wake, both in vietnamese politics and the spanish-speaking church it’s 1981 and the penitents of ...