Holy See

Pope Leo to revive a long-standing papal tradition set aside during the Francis pontificate

The Catholic Herald

Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints confronts a Christianity reduced to sentimentality, warning that mercy detached from wisdom can become destructive for both faith and civilisation

Thomas Colsy

Each January, two lambs are blessed at the Basilica of St Agnes Outside the Walls, a ceremony linking a young Roman martyr, innocence and the papal pallium in one quiet act of devotion

Melanie McDonagh

Bishop Athanasius Schneider has revealed that he personally urged Pope Leo XIV to issue an Apostolic Constitution to bring clarity and stability to the regulation of the Traditional Latin Mass.

Niwa Limbu

A decision by Vatican City’s highest court has reshaped the next phase of a landmark financial case

The Catholic Herald

Laity and diocesan staff in the Diocese of Charlotte speak out following the first Sunday under the altar rail ban

Niwa Limbu

A controversial televised Christmas Eve Mass from Stuttgart has forced a German diocese into a public apology, but the fallout points to a deeper crisis over liturgy, authority and theology in the German Church

The Catholic Herald

Leo used his first State of the World address to warn against ideological coercion, while a leaked consistory text on the traditional Mass exposed deepening divisions in Rome

Michael Haynes

Decades of authoritarian rule have strained relations between Church and State in the Central American country

The Catholic Herald

Gerard Manley Hopkins spoke of “the dearest freshness deep down things.” In the poetry of Fr Joseph Evans new collection of poetry offers a window into the quiet struggle to find God in apparent absence

Jan C. Bentz