Holy See

Why Cardinal Sarah terrifies his critics

Cardinal Sarah's opponents have attacked his views and called for his sacking. His response has been a gracious silence
Matthew Schmitz

A broken system

the writer flannery o’connor once quipped that “the church’s motto is the wrong man for the job”. she was expressing a common complaint amon...
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The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online the amazing devotion of african refugees in the national catholic register , victor gaetan spoke to fr lin...
Staff writers

Furore over Vatican pro-life appointment

archbishop vincenzo paglia, president of the pontifical academy for life, has defended the appointment of nigel biggar, an anglican philosop...
Staff writers

Vietnamese Catholics terrorised by gangs

police have looked the other way as gangs of young people have terrorised a catholic community in north-east vietnam, according to reports. ...
Staff writers

Vatican sticks to script on Venezuela crisis

negotiations between government and opposition groups leading to free and fair elections are needed to put an end to violence in venezuela a...
Staff writers

Priests in mass revolt against bishop

at least 69 priests have resigned en masse after accusing their bishop of embezzling £78,000 ($100,000) of church funds for personal use, an...
Staff writers

In brief

francis to visit peru and chile in january pope francis will travel to chile and peru in january, the vatican has announced. it will be his ...
Staff Reporter

A man beaten but unbowed

a growing crowd wants cardinal robert sarah’s head on a platter. open a liberal catholic periodical and you are likely to find a call for th...
Matthew Schmitz

Comments of the week

electing bishops is a catholic tradition sir – in your leading article on the dispute over the appointment of a new bishop of ahiara, nigeri...
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