Pope Francis

Papal almoner gives up flat for a Syrian refugee family

Archbishop Krajewski, who now sleeps in his office, said offering his flat 'doesn't cost me anything'

The war we’re not fighting against ISIS

Islamic extremists recruit their fighters with slick propaganda about Christian history. Exposing the lies should be part of our strategy

A papal headache

few catholics outside nigeria will be familiar with the diocese of ahiara. but it has probably caused more heartache for the pope than any o...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣   francis presents ultimatum to nigerian priests what happened? pope francis has intervened in a dispute between the bishop of ahiara...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online disillusionment in the voting booth fr ed tomlinson found election day a gloomy experience. “i cannot reme...

Church ‘is being persecuted in Ireland’

the church in ireland is undergoing “persecution”, with people directing “anger” at clergy, bishops have said. speaking at a priest’s ordina...

Bishops give Pope a list of slain protesters

venezuela’s bishops have delivered a letter to pope francis calling their government a dictatorship and including a list of those killed in ...

Cardinal: attacks on Benedict are diabolical

cardinal robert sarah has hit out at critics of benedict xvi, accusing them of “vulgarity and baseness” in their responses to the former pop...

Why we’re struggling to defeat extremism

isis recruits are often portrayed in the west as having been ordinary people prior to some sudden moment of radicalisation, shortly before t...

‘We’re not used to cardinals here’

last time i met bishop anders arborelius, we were toasting the canonisation of mother elisabeth hesselblad, the bridgetine nun who brought t...

Karl Gustel Wärnberg