Pope Francis

Communication breakdown

romans woke up last saturday to a disturbing sight. posters featuring a stern-looking pope francis had been plastered all over the historic ...
The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣  anti-francis posters cause a stir in rome what happened? dozens of posters sprang up around rome on saturday in an anonymous protest...
Staff writers

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online the end of catholics’ ‘grand narrative’? the economist’s erasmus blog raised a topical question: “i...
Staff writers

Francis names delegate to Order of Malta

pope francis has named archbishop angelo becciu, vatican substitute secretary of state, as his special delegate and spokesman to the order o...
Staff writers

German cardinals clash over Amoris Laetitia

the debate over communion for the remarried has intensified, after the vatican’s doctrinal chief and the council of german bishops made diam...
Staff writers

In brief

francis and trump could meet in may pope francis and the new us president donald trump are likely to meet for the first time in may, it was ...
Staff writers

The ‘translation wars’ are not over

under benedict xvi, the outlook for liturgical conservatives in the church looked more promising than ever. two of benedict’s most significa...
Madeleine Teahan

Pope Francis’s traditionalists

on the weekend that posters of a scowling pope francis were plastered over rome by traditionalists protesting against his “bullying” tactics...
Damian Thompson

A guide to Catholic ultra-traditionalists

the sspx is often referred to in the secular media as an “ultra-traditionalist” or “extremist” body. this risks exhausting the adjectives ne...
Dan Hitchens

The Vatican’s stripped-down sovereignty

the knights of malta crisis brought rare attention to the issue of sovereignty for entities that are not territorial states – like the holy ...
Fr Raymond de Souza