Pope Francis

Why, despite everything, I am still a Catholic

I joined for the faith, I discovered humanity
Tim Stanley

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online where seminarians struggle to survive seminarians in venezuela are giving up their studies to support thei...
Staff writers

In brief

hobbs, new mexico virgin mary statue is ‘weeping olive oil’ a seven-foot bronze statue of the virgin mary appears to be weeping tears compos...
Staff writers

Accountability at the Vatican: Special treatment

the mccarrick case has revealed a defect in the system if the allegations against cardinal theodore mccarrick are true, they represent a mic...
Christopher R. Altieri

Consecrated virgins: Body and soul

the vatican has caused alarm by saying consecrated virgins need not be virgins since 1970, when the rite of consecration of virgins was rein...
Dan Hitchens

Diary: by Fr Michael Ward

to birmingham, to be ordained priest. the car journey north from my home in the suburbs of oxford starts out by taking me past newman road i...
Fr Michael Ward

Bishops on the barricades

shaky video footage shows priests processing with the blessed sacrament through the low-walled streets of sébaco. this is no ordinary day in...
Miguel Cullen

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A millennial problem

is pope francis, like donald trump, guilty of abject capitulation to russia’s vladimir putin? that question was raised by one of the most re...
Fr Raymond de Souza

When Catholics feel betrayed

why on earth do we stay in a church in which clerics commit sexual abuse? the easiest answer is realism. we tell ourselves that some sexual ...
Tim Stanley

Beyond the parish

throughout all the years of my involvement with the church, the parish has been taken as the crucial ecclesial institution. talk to almost a...
Bishop Robert Barron