Pope Francis

Letter and Nazi dagger reopen debates over wartime role of Pope Pius XII

rome – two new discoveries regarding pope pius xii are rekindling debate over the role of the wartime pontiff, including a letter suggesting...
Crux Staff

Senior bishop chastises France and Germany over inhospitality to boat migrants

a senior european bishop has criticised france and germany for failing to provide “a fair solution” to the problem of migrants arriving in t...
The Catholic Herald

Cardinal Müller on Synod: 'This is the great hour of manipulation'

on tuesday cardinal müller gave a frank interview to spanish catholic news website i nfovaticana, in which he has expressed his grave concer...
The Catholic Herald

Pope's Ukraine envoy to meet Chinese premier on Wednesday

rome – an italian newspaper reported tuesday morning that pope francis’s personal envoy for the conflict in ukraine, cardinal matteo zuppi, ...
Crux Staff

Raising children in Britain is becoming increasingly hard

g.k. chesterton when talking about children said, “as we walk the streets and see below us those delightful bulbous heads, three times too b...
Laura Perrins

"Putin's Pope"? A just or unjust title, there may be trouble ahead

rome – yesterday  crux  carried two stories which, at first blush, appear unrelated. the first concerned  the latest ukrainia...
John L Allen

Pope Francis kicks off 'hot autumn' at the Vatican

rome – as summer winds down in rome and the city fills up with reluctant vacationers getting back to the grind, pope francis has kicked off ...
Elise Ann Allen

Water in the desert: Pope Francis praises the faithfulness of the Church in Mongolia

ulaanbaatar – speaking to one of the catholic church’s smallest flocks, located in a region that has not always been hospitable to christian...
Elise Allen

Mongolia and the papacy: thinking in centuries

rome – legendarily, the vatican thinks in centuries. there’s a sense in which pope francis’s visit to mongolia this week, the first ever by ...
John L Allen

Pax Mongolica: Pope Francis praises the unifying legacy of Genghis Khan

ulaanbaatar – standing in a country that borders both russia and china, pope francis on saturday praised what he called mongolia’s foreign p...
Elise Allen