Pope Francis

Honour your martyrs, Francis tells Ugandans

pope francis has urged ugandans to honour their martyrs every day by caring for others. the pope made the appeal at a mass outside the ...

Pope asks Central Africans to 'lay down instruments of death'

put down the weapons of war and work for justice, pope francis has urged the people of the central african republic. “even when the pow...

Lourdes chief praises British model of pilgrimage

a senior official at lourdes has hailed british pilgrimages as the best in the world. dr alessandro de franciscis, president of the off...

Westminster gains two new auxiliary bishops

pope francis has appointed two auxiliary bishops to the diocese of westminster, canon paul mcaleenan and mgr john wilson. the episcopal...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online a good man maligned tim muldoon of aleteia wrote about the film spotlight, based on the story of ho...

The big story of the past seven days

✣  pope hails 'wisdom of the poor' in nairobi what happened? the pope denounced the conditions slum-dwellers had to live in during...

Mission abandoned

vatican ii was intended as a call to unity and evangelism, but its legacy has been an escalation of intra-catholic wars. it is time to embra...

The blessed art of giving

my project to regenerate deprived areas of county durham, which will cost up to £100 million, has taught me what it really means to serve ot...

Catholic Herald View

Popes don’t always get what they want

the friends of francis are urging him to take a revolutionary step after the synod. but there are good reasons why he might reject their adv...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Love in a cruel climate

the street children of manila have been failed by their families and rejected by society – but when pope francis paid a visit, they became o...