Pope Francis

a practical first step towards holiness is to pray for your enemies, pope francis has said. during a parish visit on saturday evening, the p...

Staff writers

when archbishop charles chaput of philadelphia issued pastoral guidelines on amoris laetitia last july, not everyone was pleased. critics di...

Madeleine Teahan

the diocese of coimbra has concluded its phase of the cause of carmelite sister lucia dos santos, one of the three children who saw our lady...

Staff writers

isis promises to target egypt’s christians an isis affiliate group in egypt has released a video promising more attacks on the country’s chr...

Staff writers

as disputes continue over the mistreatment of refugees attempting the “balkan route” into europe, no government has been criticised as harsh...

Jonathan Luxmoore

vatican city readers, like us writers, are perhaps getting weary from the dizzying twists and turns on divorce, remarriage and the sacrament...

Fr Raymond de Souza

of all the wonderful chesterton quotations, perhaps the finest and best known is the following. the times, having posed the question “what’s...

Stephen Bullivant

ash wednesday jl 2:12-18; ps 51; 2 cor 5:20—6:2; mt 6:1-6, 16-18 ‘remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” these powerful ...

Bishop John Sherrington

how to help the inspiring sister tarcisia sir – no one could fail to be moved and inspired by sister tarcisia hunhoff’s work to provide sore...

The Catholic Herald

continental ambitions by kevin starr, ignatius press, £28 a modern, satisfactory survey of catholicism in colonial north america has long be...

Jonathan Wright