Pope Francis

Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/03/19

a good person “draws good from his heart and from his mouth” , pope francis said at yesterday’s angelus ( full text , full video ). the pope...

Christian charity must be supported by prayer, says Pope

fidelity to christ is the "secret" to every effective work of christian charity, so every activity of outreach to the poor and suffering sho...

Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/03/19

nicaragua’s bishops have called for prayers ahead of new talks between government and opposition leaders. pope francis has chosen an italian...

Why clerical beards divide the Eastern and Western Church

the wearing of beards by clergy is a topic historically fraught with contradiction. but before we explore those contradictions, i owe you th...

Charles Coulombe

Could priests in California be jailed over the Seal of Confession?

last week a california state senator introduced a bill to remove the penitential exemption from mandatory reporting of sexual abuse, in what...

Private education is unfair, but is there anything we can do about it?

engines of privilege by francis green and david kynaston bloomsbury, 320pp, £20/$28 gilded youth by james brooke-smith reaktion, 272pp, £18/...

St Paul can help us tackle the curse of opioid addiction

i first learned about the opioid affliction in america on reading jd vance’s marvellous memoir hillbilly elegy – his story about growing up ...

How to survive a secular workplace

one of the alarming effects of living in a society less and less beholden to traditional christian morality is that many catholics find them...

Cardinal Zen: What the Church is risking in its dialogue with China

unfortunately, when someone in the vatican talks about the church’s “soft power”, they still mean it in a political (worldly) sense. the gen...

Cardinal Joseph Zen

Will the abuse summit be a turning point for the Church?

the vatican’s clerical abuse summit was many things at the same time, some of them contradictory. the summit was the sixth major initiative ...

Fr Raymond de Souza