Life

vatican city, dec 28, 2022 the vatican confirmed wednesday that pope emeritus benedict xvi has experienced a sudden decline in his health, b...

Hannah Brockhaus

on the feast of st john the evangelist, the great apostle of the incarnation, an extract from the third chapter of st athanasius’s great tre...

St Athanasius of Alexandria

priest-holes – those small spaces in old english houses which sheltered mission priests in the dangerous days of the elizabethan persecution...

The Catholic Herald

our correspondent may baldwin's account of christmas in the holy land - then a british protectorate under the terms of the league of nations...

May Baldwin

you might think that christmas could be nothing but christian, but that would be to underestimate not only the dulling numbing of secular ho...

Gavin Ashenden

the vatican has laicised an internationally renowned pro-life activist priest for “blasphemous communications on social media”. fr frank pav...

Simon Caldwell

the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call him emmanuel, a name which means ‘god is with us’.  in the final we...

Fr Mark Vickers

the whole netflix watching world has been talking about harry and meghan this week.  the fact that their documentary, entitled - y...

Katherine Bennett

by  dubhaltach o reachtnin eamon martin, archbishop of armagh and primate of all-ireland, has spoken out strongly about the encroaching...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

a majority of catholics in the us house of representatives voted last thursday to pass the “respect for marriage act” which will redefine ma...

Olenka Hamilton