Vatican News

Exclusive: Diocese of Charlotte reacts to first Sunday after altar rail ban

Laity and diocesan staff in the Diocese of Charlotte speak out following the first Sunday under the altar rail ban
Niwa Limbu

Vatican dispatch: Leo rebukes Orwellian ideologies and a consistory leak reignites the liturgy wars 

Leo used his first State of the World address to warn against ideological coercion, while a leaked consistory text on the traditional Mass exposed deepening divisions in Rome
Michael Haynes

Cardinal Brenes and Christian persecution in Nicaragua

Decades of authoritarian rule have strained relations between Church and State in the Central American country
The Catholic Herald

The poetry and priesthood of Fr Joseph Evans

Gerard Manley Hopkins spoke of “the dearest freshness deep down things.” In the poetry of Fr Joseph Evans new collection of poetry offers a window into the quiet struggle to find God in apparent absence
Jan C. Bentz

Calls for national conversation as UK abortion numbers hit record high

Right To Life is now urging the government and public to confront the growing crisis
The Catholic Herald

Abortions of babies with Down Syndrome on the rise

Pro Life Campaign expresses alarm over newly released statistics
The Catholic Herald

The liturgical limbo of Traditionis Custodes

Almost five years on from Traditionis Custodes, the Traditional Latin Mass has been placed in a liturgical limbo, neither promoted nor penalised
Niwa Limbu

Cardinal Zen’s confrontation with synodality

At the first extraordinary consistory of Pope Leo’s pontificate, Cardinal Joseph Zen delivered a stark critique of the Synod on Synodality, warning that it risks fracturing the Church
The Catholic Herald

My Journey to Full Communion with the See of Peter

Fr Michael Nazir-Ali shares his journey from Anglican bishop to Catholic priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Fr Michael Nazir-Ali

Cardinal Roche’s consistory document on the Traditional Latin Mass revealed

A document authored under Cardinal Arthur Roche’s authority and circulated to cardinals during the January consistory sets out a forceful rejection of the Tridentine Latin Mass
Niwa Limbu