Vatican Dispatch

pope francis was discharged from rome’s gemelli hospital today to a round of applause on after an eight-day stay following abdominal surgery...

Hannah Brockhaus

pope francis is “steadily improving” two days after he underwent abdominal surgery to correct an incisional hernia, a vatican spokesman said...

Hannah Brockhaus

bishop athanasius schneider is appealing to pope francis to rescind new norms that grant equal voting rights to bishops and laity at the oct...

Diana Montagna

pope francis was admitted to hospital for surgery to correct a hernia, and is now recovering. the argentine pontiff was put under a general ...

Simon Caldwell

thomas arundell, the younger son of sir john arundell of lanherne, in 1541 acquired the (previously monastic) manors of tisbury and donhead....

Michael Hodges

iraq’s christians cling to hope, despite decades of sanctions, violence and persecution, says tom westcott. after two decades of political&n...

Tom Westcott

simon caldwell meets the ruffled order’s new grand hospitaller keen to build on its legacy. in june last year, pope francis seized control o...

Simon Caldwell

at 5am, my alarm hauls me into another day in the eternal city. an icon on my bedroom wall of christ pantocrator comes into focus. it’s a be...

Gerard Holden

in my tiny room in a guest house on budapest’s castle hill, i was building a tower of towels and rolls of loo paper. the voice of the bbc te...

Eduard Habsburg

an institution has been formed in rome to study alleged marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena in the catholic church. the inte...

Hannah Brockhaus