Vatican News

Morning Catholic must-reads: 12/12/19

as little as 10 per cent of peter’s pence donations are spent on charitable works, according to the wall street journal. iraq’s christian le...

Peoria bishop announces novena for Venerable Sheen's sainthood cause

bishop daniel jenky of peoria is inviting the faithful to pray a novena beginning december 12 to "petition god unceasingly" that archbishop ...

Catholic News Agency

Vatican's investment manager backed company that 'misled investors'

the italian businessman responsible for investing millions of vatican funds owned a stake in an online options trading company fined in 2016...

Masked wrestlers and the padlock saint

mexico city: cradle of empires by nick caistor reaktion, 240pp, £14.99/$20 mexico city has not had a very good press. one of the largest cit...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

How the supernatural took second place in the Church

christus vincit by bishop athanasius schneider and diane montagna angelico press, 338pp, £16.50/$20 when the soviets sought to describe the ...

Letters: We can't let our musical standards fall

we can’t let our musical standards fall sir – may i warmly endorse your leading article memorialising the achievements of sir stephen cleobu...

The Catholic Herald

For many Catholics, this will be a 'none of the above' election

i was a “conscientious abstainer” for the brexit referendum in 2016; and if conversations with friends are anything to judge by, many cathol...

Was there really a plan to relocate the Vatican to Ireland?

on july 18, 1931, the liverpool weekly post reported some startling news. it said that owing to “quarrels with fascists and mussolini”, pope...

The Catholic Herald

The growing Marian enrichment of the Church's calendar

the addition of a new feast to the universal calendar – our lady of loreto on december 10 – is a reminder of the growing marian enrichment o...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Officials object to a 'mega parish' plan in Germany's oldest diocese

following an intervention by the vatican, germany’s oldest diocese has put on hold plans to reduce its number of parishes from almost 900 to...

Anian Christoph Wimmer