Pope Francis

Pope Francis writes letter on vital role of novels and poems for all Christians

pope francis has written a comprehensive and deeply personal letter on the important role of literature in the formation of priests but also...

Cardinal Sean O'Malley's 20-year tenure as Archbishop of Boston ends

on 5 august the vatican announced that pope francis has accepted the resignation of cardinal sean o'malley, one of catholicism’s most influe...

Why did it take a Muslim to persuade the Pope to denounce a disgusting parody of the Last Supper?

rome – whatever one makes of his aims or tactics, there’s no doubt turkish president recep tayyip erdoğan is a formidable political operator...

Anti-trafficking network run by nuns reports abuses worsening due to Ukraine and Gaza wars

nuns working on the frontlines to prevent human trafficking have warned that the risks and abuses of exploitation are increasing due to glob...

French soul searching begins as weird chaos of Olympics' opening ceremony sinks in

the shambolic and strange scenes that marred the opening ceremony of the olympic games are reaching far beyond a shocked catholic church, an...

Pride: How it is intimately bound up with the rejection of God's omnipotence

the university of oxford hosts a sermon every year in st mary’s church on the sin of pride. part of the joke, in my day, was that they used ...

Vatican proposes global truce in fighting for duration of Olympics

as this year’s summer olympic games open in paris, the vatican’s athletic department is calling for a cessation of all global conflicts and ...

Cardinal Ambongo praises Church in Africa while urging reconciliation for a fragmented continent

one of the african continent’s leading cardinals has called on the church there to focus its efforts on restoring hope to a people in danger...

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Devotion to two Marian appearances approved by Vatican as ‘signs of grace and spiritual conversion’

since unveiling a new set of norms for evaluating the validity of alleged marian apparitions and other spiritual phenomena, the vatican has ...

Synod draft surprises by omitting women's ordination, married priests and LGBT

a working document for the final gathering later this year of pope francis’s controversial synod of bishops on synodality makes no clear men...