Vatican News

Cradle Catholics forget how easy they have it compared to us Anglican converts

the appointment of fr david waller as the first bishop ordinary of the personal ordinariate of our lady of walsingham represents not only a ...
Matthew Showering

Security checks again find batch of weapons before papal event

rome – less than a month after a man on new york’s most wanted list was arrested in st. peter’s square with three knives ahead of a papal au...
Crux Staff

Happily ever after? Secular modernity's irrational discomfort with boy meets girl

last month, the british museum briefly found itself in hot water on twitter/x. some feminists took exception to a jokey post they’d made sug...
Niall Gooch

‘Justice and peace shall kiss’ in Verona during Pope’s visit

pope francis is due to make what will be his second journey of the year beyond rome in order to visit the italian city of verona, the famous...
The Catholic Herald

Sir Edward Leigh MP at the Catholic Union: A 'loveable rascal' retires

it’s always nice to be asked to a party – especially when it’s in the grand surroundings of the mother of parliaments, when i get to rub sho...
The Catholic Herald

EU's abortion vote is a ‘radical attack’ on life, says Pope’s top deputy

rome – in a wide-ranging interview, pope francis’s top diplomat said a recent vote and attempt by the european parliament to style abortion ...
Crux Staff

AI priest avatar gets the chop in first week of digital ministry

an ai-generated avatar priest that was launched at the start of the week by a catholic organisation appears to have been digitally defrocked...
James Jeffrey

From betrayal to benediction: three cities, two paintings and the one and only Caravaggio

the national gallery in london is celebrating its bicentenary by lending twelve of its most famous paintings to various museums and gallerie...
hughkennedy

Italy's abortion row heats up amid concerns about influence of pro-life organisations from US

rome – conflict is churning both inside italy and across europe over a new plan by the italian government to introduce pro-life consulters t...
The Catholic Herald

Popes take risks to appear in public

rome – amid the usual cascade of news out of the vatican in recent days was a curious item, which, among other things, touches upon the ever...
John L Allen