Pope Francis

last year proved beyond all doubt that journalists are terrible at predicting the future. few commentators foresaw brexit, the emergence of ...

The Catholic Herald

✣  francis orders inquiry into order of malta row what happened? pope francis has ordered an inquiry after a controversy broke out at t...

Staff writers

a video has emerged of salesian fr tom uzhunnalil, who was kidnapped by terrorists last year, in which the priest appeals for his release. t...

Staff writers

a leading chinese politician has told the country’s catholics to promote socialism and keep their distance from rome. speaking after a meeti...

Staff writers

the diocese of youngstown, ohio, has formally opened the cause of the woman who inspired mother angelica to become a nun. more than 1,000 pe...

Staff writers

cardinal walter brandmüller, one of the four cardinals who have asked pope francis to reaffirm church teaching, has discussed the possibilit...

Staff writers

pope tells bishops: the church weeps at abuse in a letter to the world’s bishops for the feast of the holy innocents, pope francis has said ...

Staff writers

over the past year, the prospect that pope francis would take the church on a trajectory radically different from that of his predecessors h...

Fr Mark Drew

warsaw when a polish bishop recently denied being in dispute with pope francis, it was only the latest sign of controversy over the pontiff’...

Jonathan Luxmoore

in 2004, catholics in europe received an alarming wake-up call when the italian rocco buttiglione was turned down for a european commission ...

Filipe D'Avillez