Pope Francis

Pope makes surprise visit to Latin American commission office

A staff member was 'stunned' to find herself opening the door to the Pope

Catholic News Service

Nothing narrow or insular about Catholic education, Cardinal Nichols tells graduates

Graduates at St Mary's, Britain's oldest Catholic university, were addressed by Cardinal Nichols last week

Pope Francis expresses 'deep sorrow' and 'spiritual closeness' to France after Nice attack

French bishops have asked Catholics to pray for the victims and their families at Masses on Sunday

Vatican camper van brings medical care to Rome's shanty towns

Mobile medical unit was donated by the Vatican to a volunteer group of doctors and nurses

Vatican condemns Nice attack that has killed 84 people

Fr Lombardi said the Vatican shared in the suffering of victims after a lorry ploughed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day

We can have it both ways

Cardinal Sarah’s advice to priests to celebrate Mass facing east, rather than towards the congregation, has caused uproar in Rome. Yet a simple compromise is available

The big story of the past seven days

✣  vatican intervenes in ad orientem debate what happened? the vatican has downplayed cardinal robert sarah’s calls for ad orientem wor...

Advantage the old guard

there is only one way to interpret the legislative text issued by pope francis on saturday: as a rebuff to cardinal george pell. the motu pr...

The Catholic Herald

Politics turned upside down

new york i wouldn’t be the first to observe that donald trump never uses the words “freedom” or “liberty”. in the united states, a republica...

The sin we need to start talking about

catholics throughout the world have often taken the lead in opposing abortion, euthanasia, war, racism, hunger, poverty and pollution. and f...

William Doino Jr