Vatican Dispatch

Can a skyscraper represent love? Pope Francis says it can in Singapore

singapore – surrounded by a city-state whose urban core contains more than 100 high-rise structures straining towards the sky, pope francis ...
Elise Ann Allen

New and united Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia approved by Pope Francis

archbishop mark o’toole has announced the creation of the new archdiocese of cardiff-menevia, a decision promulgated by pope francis on 12 s...
The Catholic Herald

Augustinian friars return to Walsingham at Catholic National Shrine for first time since Reformation

three african friars are coming to the catholic national shrine and basilica of our lady at walsingham, where they will assist and serve the...
Tom Colsy

The March for Life in London shone a beam of light for a nation lost in fog of moral relativism

in 2010 the guardian newspaper published an article entitled “pope gives top job to abortion hardliner”. pope benedict xvi, the article clai...
Katherine Bennett

Pope Francis arrives in Singapore: will he address China is the big question

singapore – pope francis has landed in singapore at the start of the final stage of his 12-day odyssey to asia and oceania. he is expected t...
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Francis will celebrate inaugural Mass at reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, claim well-placed sources

a senior vatican correspondent at a major french newspaper has claimed that pope francis will travel to paris for the reopening of the iconi...
Tom Colsy

Not a bad turnout: Pope’s Mass attended by 600,000 – nearly half of East Timor's population

dili – an estimated 600,000 catholics attended the mass celebrated by pope francis on his last day in east timor. it meant that nearly half ...
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Francis confronts dark magic, witchcraft and violence against women in Papua New Guinea

port moresby – those involved in helping vulnerable and abused women in papua new guinea are hoping that pope francis’s three-day visit to t...
Elise Ann Allen

Thanks, but no thanks: Francis's support of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church rebuffed

rome – if ever proof were needed of pope francis’s indefatigable commitment to outreach, the fact that today he's in vanimo in papua new gui...
John L Allen

Be close to those on the peripheries, Pope Francis tells clergy and religious in Papua New Guinea

port moresby – pope francis has told bishops, clergy and religious in papua new guinea to be close to those on the peripheries and to contin...
Elise Ann Allen