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Vatican charges two former hospital officials with stealing money to furnish cardinal's apartment

The two former senior officials are accused of diverting 422,000 euros from the Vatican's Bambino Gesù hospital

Associated Press

Vatican-backed journal attacks American conservative Catholics

US conservative Catholics have formed an 'ecumenism of hate' with Evangelical Protestants, Civiltà Cattolica has claimed

Can anything stop Catholic infighting?

Liturgical squabbles, doctrinal rows, vicious public spats: the Church is once again gripped by a 1970s-style factionalism

Damian Thompson

Death of the ‘airport bishop’

when the new archbishop of milan stood up to give his first speech to his new diocese last friday he wore a crumpled jacket over a faded cle...

The Catholic Herald

The best of the blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online the giant who spoke for st john paul ii joaquin navarro-valls, st john paul ii’s spokesman for many years,...

Cardinal criticises Pope over sudden dismissal

cardinal gerhard müller has criticised the way in which pope francis dismissed him as head of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith...

Vatican lays down law on gluten-free hosts

the vatican has reminded bishops that completely gluten-free hosts are invalid. low-gluten hosts, on the other hand, are valid for people wh...

Archbishop must go, says coadjutor

the coadjutor bishop of guam has said that the island’s archbishop should not return to lead the diocese regardless of the outcome of a vati...

Does anyone care for our priests?

earlier this month it was reported that eight priests in ireland had committed suicide in the past 10 years. the association of catholic pri...

The poisoning of American Catholicism

in february 2016, pope francis set off a media firestorm when he took an unprecedented shot at then presidential candidate donald trump. “a ...

Michael Warren Davis