Pope Francis

Rigid thinking isn't divine, Pope tells staff of Jesuit magazine

The Pope met editors at La Civilta Cattolica to mark its 4,000th edition

Junno Arocho Esteves

Pope Francis’s traditionalists

John Paul II couldn’t strike a deal that satisfied the SSPX. Nor could Benedict. Enter the unlikeliest of bridge-builders

Damian Thompson

Harry Mount: The recipe for genius - keeping busy

one of david hockney’s favourite quotations is from tchaikovsky – “inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” the quote...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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