Vatican Dispatch

Pope Francis is correct: all war is unjust

in patrick o’brian’s novel desolation island, captain jack aubrey explains to ship’s physician stephen maturin why aubrey has doubts about h...

Fighting for faith

mark wahlberg’s early-morning routine would shame the divine office of a medieval cistercian monk. he gets up at 2:30am and then spends 15-2...

Promotion for Bishop of Plymouth as Pope appoints him to two Welsh dioceses

the pope has appointed bishop mark o’toole as archbishop-elect of cardiff and bishop-elect of menevia. a londoner, bishop o’toole has been b...

Pope names new Archbishop of Paris

pope francis has named archbishop laurent ulrich as the new catholic archbishop of paris. ulrich, the archbishop of lille, northern france, ...

Vatican clears Polish cardinal of negligence after abuse probe

the vatican has ended an investigation into allegations that polish cardinal stanisław dziwisz failed to investigate claims of clerical sex ...

Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis shares 'apprehension' over German synodal path, says senior Vatican cardinal

a top cardinal at the vatican has confirmed pope francis’ apprehension about germany’s “synodal path,” cardinal kurt koch  said that cr...

Pope Francis begins Holy Week with call for Easter truce in Ukraine

pope francis has called for an east truce in ukraine. he said on palm sunday 2022 that nothing is impossible for god, who has the power to e...

Hannah Brockhaus

Putin, Kirill and the Vatican

there are many who see in patriarch kirill’s reluctance to condemn the russian invasion of ukraine, evidence of caesaropapism. certainly, it...

Pray for peace in Ukraine

the pope could hardly be clearer about how he sees the war in ukraine. speaking in the vatican at the height of the russian attacks on mariu...

The Catholic Herald

Reigning cats and dogs

you mean ‘exhumation’.” “no, ‘excavation’.” “but a jawbone – that must be proof of some locked-up nun from the old days when they were up to...

Anthony Cazalet