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Vatican condemns Nice attack that has killed 84 people

Fr Lombardi said the Vatican shared in the suffering of victims after a lorry ploughed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day

A witty but alarming take on the Reformation

Book review: All Things Made New by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Jack Scarisbrick

We can have it both ways

Cardinal Sarah’s advice to priests to celebrate Mass facing east, rather than towards the congregation, has caused uproar in Rome. Yet a simple compromise is available

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online apostolic secretaries jason craig at catholicexchange.com paid tribute to a figure on the front lin...

The big story of the past seven days

✣  vatican intervenes in ad orientem debate what happened? the vatican has downplayed cardinal robert sarah’s calls for ad orientem wor...

Advantage the old guard

there is only one way to interpret the legislative text issued by pope francis on saturday: as a rebuff to cardinal george pell. the motu pr...

The Catholic Herald

The sin we need to start talking about

catholics throughout the world have often taken the lead in opposing abortion, euthanasia, war, racism, hunger, poverty and pollution. and f...

William Doino Jr

We can have it both ways

it’s not often that academic conferences make headlines, but when the vatican’s liturgy chief, cardinal robert sarah, invited priests last w...

Harry Mount: If I were a rich man ...

when i’m feeling particularly unsuccessful, i console myself with all the luxury goods i don’t want. i was extremely consoled by the di...

The Pontiff’s new American voice

pope francis made two groundbreaking appointments to the vatican press office on monday. his choice as deputy director of the press office w...

Madeleine Teahan