Pope Francis

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...

The best of the web

✣ highlights from the week online the meaning of st philip’s glasses case at the amish catholic, rick yoder said that on a visit to the birm...

The big story of the past seven days

✣ supreme court acquits asia bibi what happened? the future of asia bibi, the pakistani christian woman accused of blasphemy, is hanging in ...

From Bede to Captain Pugwash

ushaw college looks a forbidding place as you drive there across the moors outside durham, and finding a new role for the former catholic se...

Catherine Pepinster

Pope says entrepreneurship needed in face of 'scandalous poverty'

'The possession of goods is an opportunity to multiply them with creativity and use them with generosity,' the Pope said

Courtney Grogan/CNA