Holy See

A year to look backwards

The anniversaries of 2017 are a chance to ponder events that profoundly shape the world today

Fr Raymond de Souza

Why Ireland needs more Rome, not less

pope francis is due to visit ireland in august 2018. his trip will probably include a historic journey north of the border. but what he is l...

Mary Kenny: The unsettling moral of two funerals

two recent irish funerals observed: the first was that of cardinal desmond connell, archbishop of dublin, and the first dubliner to be given...

The big story of the past seven days

✣ pope gives landmark address to eu leaders what happened? pope francis addressed the leaders of the european union on the eve of the 60th a...

Omnium Gatherum

with the fifth sunday of lent, we of the roman church enter into passiontide. since time immemorial it has been called 1st passion sunday. d...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online the lowdown on genuflection in church should you always genuflect when entering a catholic church? not nec...

April 2 to April 8

cardinal nichols (westminster) sun: holy land 2016 reunion, vaughan house, london, sw1p 1qn, 2.00pm. mon: meetings in rome (day 1), italy, a...

The Catholic Herald

A year to look backwards

the anniversary is the columnist’s reliable friend. nothing in the news today worthy of comment? how about the news of 10, 50 or 100 years a...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Pope approves second Fatima seers miracle

pope francis has approved the recognition of a miracle attributed to the intercession of two of the shepherd children who saw our lady of fa...

False alarm in the Communion row

the magazine the week has a little column called “boring but important”, in which it reports the latest on diplomatic appointments and infra...