Pope Francis

Red hats everywhere

on the flight home from azerbaijan earlier this month, pope francis summed up his approach to picking cardinals. “a little bit of everywhere...
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The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online what do ecumenical gestures really mean? at his blog archbishop cranmer, the anglican adrian hilton...
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Survivor of labour camp is named cardinal

pope francis has named 17 new cardinals including an albanian priest who spent decades in communist labour camps. the list also includes thr...
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Pope prays amid rubble left by earthquake

pope francis made a surprise visit to the site of a devastating earthquake in central italy last week and prayed silently and alone amid the...
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In brief

pope: history of god’s mercy is in the rosary pope francis has described the rosary as “the synthesis of the history of god’s mercy”. he was...
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Is the liturgy a laughing matter?

justin welby was hailed as the “archbishop of banterbury” in a daily mail headline last week after footage of him reducing the pope to fits ...
Madeleine Teahan

Meet the 21st-century contemplatives

‘i didn’t want to be a nun at all,” the sister tells me. “the impression that i had is that nuns were miserable people that slept in coffins...
Constance Watson

How 13 cardinals changed the course of history

this time last year the second installment of the synod on the family was unfolding in rome, the conclusion of which was as yet unknown. now...
Fr Raymond de Souza

‘A complete atheist couldn’t write this book’

as unseasonable october sunshine streams through a window high in covent garden, robert harris, the genial and welcoming author of conclave,...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Comments of the Week

why do wars rage after the fatima consecration? sir – donal foley’s fatima thesis is dissonant (feature, october 7). according to mr foley, ...
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