Vatican Dispatch

são paulo, brazil – a number of adaptations to the liturgy in masses of indigenous communities in the mexican state of chiapas were approved...

EduardoCamposLima

in the gospel for the solemnity of christ the king, jesus shows just how universal his kingship is. he stands before his judge, with blood s...

Fr David Howell

rome – after weeks of rumours about a potential papal visit, the french diocese of ajaccio announced this week that pope francis will make a...

Elise Ann Allen

pope francis during his weekly general audience announced the canonisation dates of two of the catholic church’s most popular young saints-i...

Elise Allen

long ago, one cold february evening in oxford, i made the short journey to st aldate’s church to hear a panel, including the then bisho...

Niall Gooch

cardinal robert mcelroy of san diego, a key papal ally, spoke last february at the religious education congress in los angeles, the largest ...

John Allen

two clerics in italy have been sanctioned for the crime of schism after both publicly argued that pope francis was never validly elected and...

Crux Staff

‘came the cardinal,” wrote our correspondent marian curd in 1954, describing the archbishop of westminster’s visit that december to cro...

Serenhedd James

pope francis has taken chocolates and a bouquet of roses to the italian politician who successfully campaigned to legalise abortion in the 1...

Simon Caldwell

rome – the vatican’s top diplomat has said that a controversial deal with china on the appointment of bishops will continue “regardless of r...

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