Pope Francis

The cost of unity

next month will mark a new era in relations between the catholic church and the anglican communion. at least, that is what the pope and the ...
The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣   leaked letter restarts ‘amoris wars’ what happened? a former assassin has accused the president of the philippines, president rodri...
Staff writers

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online not blessed yet should fr jacques hamel be referred to as “blessed” since the pope referred to him ...
Staff writers

Pope and Justin Welby to unveil joint mission

the pope and the archbishop of canterbury will send out 17 pairs of anglican and catholic bishops across the world next month to work togeth...
Staff writers

Priest who spent life battling Satan dies at 91

fr gabriele amorth, an italian pauline priest renowned for his work in dispelling demons, has died aged 91. fr amorth began his ministry as ...
Staff writers

Priest who survived gulag is beatified

a polish-born priest who was deported to soviet-ruled central asia and volunteered to stay on and minister to catholics has been beatified. ...
Staff writers

In brief

pope to meet families of terrorist victims pope francis is to meet families of victims of the nice terrorist attack at the vatican tomorrow....
Staff writers

Tug of war over Amoris

when pope francis published amoris laetitia five months ago, i predicted that the discussion of the document and its implications for cathol...
Fr Mark Drew

Annulment chaos in the Holy Land

pope francis has insisted that his annulment reforms are not a subversion of the church’s teaching against divorce. but in the middle east a...
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton

China’s evil secret

this article contains details which some readers may find disturbing ‘the scalpel cut into the chest and blood gushed out,” recalled an unna...
Benedict Rogers