Vatican Dispatch

Vatican dismisses worries about Pope's eyesight after Lisbon problems

fátima – after pope francis set aside a prepared speech in lisbon on friday morning, citing problems with his eyesight amid poor lighting, c...

Elise Ann Allen

African seminarians warned to reject ‘revisionism’ and 'detach from materialism'

seminarians in africa are being warned against embracing the misleading ideology of revisionism and succumbing to a world bedevilled by mate...

Ngala Chimton / Crux

Rood awakenings in East Anglia – The Golden Legend, by Michael Hodges

the golden legend michael hodges   self-published, £35, 320 pages this encyclopaedic study of the artworks in the churches of east...

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, by John T McGreevy

catholicism: a global history from the french revolution to pope francis john t mcgreevy  ww norton & co, £22.99, 528 pages the glo...

Deacon Stephen Morgan

Pope's Ukraine war envoy says world's challenges can only be solved through 'multilateralism'

rome --  pope francis’s personal envoy for the war in ukraine has said that multilateralism, meaning cooperation among various states a...

Texas priest who slandered Pope Francis removed by San Antonio archbishop

new york – a priest in texas who recently called pope francis a “usurper” has had his faculties for public ministry removed by archbishop gu...

What Benedict XVI meant to me and my sisters

i was in our community chapel, just before mass, when i received a message that pope emeritus benedict xvi had died. my immediate reaction w...

The Church and the Crown: Catholicism and the English Monarchy

after four and a half centuries, is all at last forgiven? in east hendred in oxfordshire a catholic church and presbytery sit opposite each ...

Serenhedd James

Pope's Synod media blackout backfires as Cardinal Zen is handed a platform

rome – yesterday’s big news out of the synod of bishops really did come from outside, i.e., it didn’t emanate from within the paul vi audien...

Vatican justice gets a bloody nose from Italian courts

the vatican has abandoned its extradition request for an italian woman sought on charges related to financial misconduct connected to a seri...