Pope Francis

Morning Catholic must-reads: 09/11/18

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Even amid attempts at revolution, Rome remains the same

Visiting the Eternal City feels like a kind of homecoming

Matthew Schmitz

Did anti-Catholicism increase First World War casualties?

Senior commanders were suspicious of the Church's peace efforts, and of Catholic soldiers

Allan Mallinson

What’s the problem with medieval mysticism?

rebekah lamb looks back to the days when the virgin mary would chastise bishops mary and the art of prayer by rachel fulton brown, columbia,...

The Nordic Newman

before the advent of lutheranism, the finnish people had been catholic for about 400 years. a hymn in the finnish lutheran hymnal contains t...

In Rome, tradition is doing good business

when i return to rome, i feel a foolish mixture of excitement and pride, as though the city belongs to me. or rather, as though i belong to ...

Matthew Schmitz

The Jesuit who stood up to Moscow

"to hell with moscow!” it is manifestly unfair to sum up thus the long and distinguished academic career and ecclesial life of fr robert taf...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The pope, the general and Europe’s tragedy

While Field Marshal Haig was worrying about Catholic 'taint', Benedict XV was assiduously seeking peace between warring nations

Allan Mallinson

Pope Francis: Attention deficit

the media are overlooking some of the pontiff’s most important initiatives from the start of his pontificate, pope francis has thrown his we...

Christopher R. Altieri

In brief

buffalo, united states whistleblower goes public with call on bishop to resign a whistleblower who leaked diocesan files on alleged clerical...