Vatican Dispatch

Vatican announces changes to canon law which may affect Opus Dei

the 90,000 lay members and roughly 2,000 priests of opus dei, a worldwide catholic organisation which is currently the church’s lone persona...
Crux Staff

"Share your joy with others!" Pope Francis's message to 1.5 million young people

lisbon – pope francis has told a crowd of young people at a prayer vigil for world youth day (wyd), estimated by organisers to be in the reg...
Elise Ann Allen

Russian Orthodox bishop thanks Francis for his "support of the Ukrainian people"

lisbon – during a meeting with interreligious leaders on friday morning in lisbon, pope francis spoke to a russian orthodox bishop who voice...
Elise Ann Allen

Priests must play soccer, not preach dogma, says Pope in broadside against traditionalists

rome – pope francis has attacked the “corruption” of restorationist movements within the church and said the second vatican council has not ...
Crux Staff

Life without crises is barely life at all, Pope Francis tells young people

lisbon –pope francis has met with young people involved in an organisation he established personally in buenos aires, encouraging them to ac...
Elise Ann Allen

Pope in Lisbon calls on youth to be 'teachers of hope'

lisbon – pope francis kicked off the second day of his august 2-6 visit to lisbon meeting with catholic university students, telling them to...
Elise Ann Allen

The Fernández kiss of death?

this controversial appointment could lead to more headaches at the vatican. the appointment of archbishop víctor manuel fernández as the new...
Diana Montagna

Letter from the Editor: Concerns over Synod and Conclave

the next two years are going to be as important for the church as the years of vatican ii in the 1960s, during which time the catholic heral...
William Cash

New-look Princes of the Church

in a flurry of pontifical activity, the pope has  named 21 new cardinals – one of them archbishop fernández, the new head of the dicast...
The Catholic Herald

The Pope’s new doctrinal enforcer

pope francis’s appointment of archbishop víctor manuel fernández as the new head of the dicastery for the doctrine of the faith is one of th...
The Catholic Herald