Pope Francis

Vatican-backed journal attacks American conservative Catholics

US conservative Catholics have formed an 'ecumenism of hate' with Evangelical Protestants, Civiltà Cattolica has claimed

Can anything stop Catholic infighting?

Liturgical squabbles, doctrinal rows, vicious public spats: the Church is once again gripped by a 1970s-style factionalism

Damian Thompson

Death of the ‘airport bishop’

when the new archbishop of milan stood up to give his first speech to his new diocese last friday he wore a crumpled jacket over a faded cle...

The Catholic Herald

The best of the blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online the giant who spoke for st john paul ii joaquin navarro-valls, st john paul ii’s spokesman for many years,...

Cardinal criticises Pope over sudden dismissal

cardinal gerhard müller has criticised the way in which pope francis dismissed him as head of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith...

Vatican lays down law on gluten-free hosts

the vatican has reminded bishops that completely gluten-free hosts are invalid. low-gluten hosts, on the other hand, are valid for people wh...

The poisoning of American Catholicism

in february 2016, pope francis set off a media firestorm when he took an unprecedented shot at then presidential candidate donald trump. “a ...

Michael Warren Davis

Can anything stop Catholic infighting?

my first parish priest was a little old man with pebble spectacles who looked like a gorgeously coloured beetle as he bent over the altar in...

Damian Thompson

The last night of a spiritual titan

"a giant”: that is how a high-ranking prelate in the roman curia describes joachim meisner, the german cardinal who died suddenly last week....

Science and faith: Is Ian Brady in hell?

in may this year an unrepentant ian brady, the moors murderer, died. terry kilbride, the brother of a victim, hoped that brady would “rot in...

Quentin de la Bedoyere