Vatican News

Mixed reactions to Vatican 'Trial of the Century': will anyone actually go to jail?

rome – after a staggering total of 30 months, 85 hearings stretching over some 600 courtroom hours, 69 witnesses and almost 150,000 pages of...

Becciu guilty: sentenced to five-and-a-half-years imprisonment by Vatican court

rome – in the long-awaited denouement of the vatican’s “trial of the century,” which has been seen widely as a litmus test of pope francis’s...

Hidden genius: celebrating the obscure Pesellino at the National Gallery in London

how many people had heard of francesco di stefano before london’s national gallery decided to stage a mini-exhibition of his work? better kn...

Serenhedd James

A History of the Catholic Church, by Piers Paul Read

a history of the catholic church piers paul read meid, £25, 560 pages piers paul read – veteran novelist, historian and biographer – has pro...

Serenhedd James

Police investigate Pope's surgeon for alleged fabrication of medical records

rome – a surgeon who has twice operated on pope francis is under investigation for falsifying hospital records. the italian daily la stampa ...

The Catholic Herald

Scattering ashes still contentious: Vatican maintains ban but approves preservation in ‘sacred places’

rome – in response to a new set of  dubia , or doubts, on the catholic church’s cremation practices, the vatican’s doctrinal office has...

Explaining the position of Spanish Catholics in November’s protests

on july 23rd this year, spaniards voted in the third inconclusive general election in the past four years, called by the country’s socialist...

Expert says church is 'waking up' to climate crisis under Pope Francis

leicester, united kingdom – a leading catholic expert on the environment has said that under pope francis' leadership, “the whole church is ...

Charles Collins

Who needs enemies? Pope's special nominee to Synod on Synodality facing trial in Sicily

rome – it has emerged that one of pope francis's special nominees to the synod on synodality, luca casarini, is under investigation in sicil...

Pope attends nine appointments in one day despite ill health

rome – pope francis kept a busy schedule thursday, with nine separate appointments, despite receiving ongoing antibiotic treatment for a flu...