Vatican Dispatch

Should the Vatican scrap China deal?

later this year, a deal inked in 2018 between the chinese communist party (ccp) and the vatican will expire. the initial two-year agreement ...

Will the next Pope be Asian?

as rumours continue to mount that pope francis could be on the verge of resigning , it is worth considering not just who the next pontiff co...

Pope resignation rumours grow as Africa trip cancelled

rumours are mounting that pope francis is on the verge of resigning. debate about the pontiff’s poor health have persisted for some time, wi...

Pope Francis appoints Canadian lawyer as new head of Order of Malta

pope francis has appointed a new head of the order of malta even before the funeral of its previous leader fra’ marco luzzago, who died sudd...

andrea-gagliarducci

BREAKING: Pope speaks on Ukraine war

details have been released of pope francis’ comments about the conflict in ukraine, regarding which he accused russian troops of brutality w...

Pope Francis gives red hat to Archbishop Arthur Roche

pope francis said on sunday that he will create 21 new cardinals, including arthur roche, the former bishop of leeds, at a consistory on aug...

Conservative but not clericalist

any body that can muster 500 priests and deacons is a force to be reckoned with, and the confraternity of catholic clergy, which does just t...

Gertrude Clarke

Cardinal Zen arrested by China for alleged 'collusion with foreign forces'

cardinal joseph zen has been arrested by the authorities in hong kong, according to local media reports. the 90-year-old former catholic bis...

Raphael: A Renaissance genius

raphael was, as kenneth clark put it, “one of the civilising forces of the western imagination”. for many of us, he is best known as the pai...

Gertrude Clarke

The restoration of two Bentley churches

in the 19th century, the “potteries” in notting dale, west london, were an area of considerable degradation, with many poor irish catholic i...