Pope Francis

As Catholics look toward renewed engagement with the Orthodox Churches, the long and often fruitful dialogue with the Coptic Church shows how ancient divisions can be approached without denying history or doctrine

Jan C. Bentz

Our chaplain answers your question: why does the Church not offer funeral rites for pets?

Chaplain

Attendance at Vatican events rose sharply in 2025 after years of decline, but numerical recovery alone cannot answer deeper questions about doctrinal clarity and ecclesial confidence

Niwa Limbu

Pope Leo praised Lebanon’s coexistence. Yet behind the pastoral language lies a more fragile reality of Christian presence struggling to survive

Thomas Colsy

Joseph Shaw assesses what Pope Leo’s first Extraordinary Consistory will reveal about the balance between tradition and progress in the new pontificate

Joseph Shaw

The Pope praised Lebanon’s coexistence. Yet behind the pastoral language lies the fragile reality of a Christian presence struggling to survive

Thomas Colsy

Dom Alcuin Reid considers the pastoral damage done by recent restrictions on the traditional liturgy and the possibility of a more generous settlement under Pope Leo

Dom Alcuin Reid

The Superior General of the SSPX has said the Church is now in a deeper state of emergency than in 1988

Niwa Limbu

What can be expected from Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory, and what it may reveal about the direction and tone of the new pontificate

The Catholic Herald

Ninety-six years after Divini illius magistri, Pius XI’s bracing account of Catholic education remains strikingly timely

Brian Martin Lapsa