Pope Francis

Comments of the week

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The Catholic Herald

Arts essay: Ireland’s farewell to a world of beauty

where will my countrymen find transcendence now, asks michael duggan in the middle of the last century, whenever they needed to experience t...

Word this week

the 29th sunday of the year is 53:10-11; heb 4:14-16; mk 10:35-45 (year b) throughout the world this sunday is kept as world mission day. we...

Bishop David McGough

Matthew Walther: The consoling gloom of Paul VI

i have no doubt that giovanni battista enrico antonio maria montini currenly enjoys the beatific vision for the very simple reason that i ha...

Matthew Walther

Tiananmen Square to St. Peter’s Square: Who are the Chinese bishops at the synod?

One bishop said Chinese Catholics should learn to adapt to a communist society

Courtney Grogan/CNA

Pope tells seminarians to report abuse ‘immediately’

'If you see something like [abuse], [go] immediately to the bishop'

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

What kind of archbishop is needed in Washington?

Wuerl has hinted that his successor should be someone unconnected with the current scandals

Letters from the Synod-2018: October 18

Reports and Commentary, from Rome and Elsewhere, on the XV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Xavier Rynne II

Jesuit superior says pope is not the ‘chief’ of the Church- What did he mean?

Fr Arturo Sosa said: 'the Pope is not the chief of the Church, he's the Bishop of Rome'

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/10/18

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