Holy See

For 200 years my religious order has helped the mentally ill. How can we allow euthanasia?

The Brothers of Charity Group in Belgium want to class euthanasia as part of medical care. That's utterly unworthy of our order
Brother René Stockman

Fatima at 100: Our Lady’s harrowing message of freedom

The famous vision of hell underscores the heights of the freedom for which we have been created
Fr Raymond de Souza

Pope arrives in Portugal to mark 100th anniversary of Fatima apparitions

Pope Francis will canonise brother and sister Francisco and Jacinta Marto
Associated Press

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Staff Reporter

The other centenary

this month marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most important innovations in recent catholic history. but this centenary is unlikely t...
The Catholic Herald

The best of the blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online the roots of ‘may the force be with you’ the well-known star wars phrase “may the force be with you” is mo...
Staff writers

Vatican investigates order over euthanasia

the vatican is investigating the decision of a group of psychiatric care centres run by a catholic religious order in belgium to permit doct...
Staff Reporter

Cardinal who converted captors declared Venerable

pope francis has signed a decree declaring vietnamese cardinal françois nguyen van thuan as venerable. the decree confirms that cardinal van...
Staff Reporter

Fr John Bollan: How my students caused a power cut in Rome

i’m just back from a few days in rome with 39 pupils from st columba’s high school in gourock, where i’m currently chaplain. anyone who’s be...
Mark Greaves

Fatima at 100: Fatima’s harrowing message of freedom

at fatima, our lady scared the hell out of the children to whom she appeared. or more precisely, she frightened the children out of hell and...
Fr Raymond de Souza