Vatican News

Marx's revolutionary synod

in the 1940s, a jesuit theologian named henri bouillard proclaimed that a theology that is not “up to date” is a “false theology”. at such a...

The Polish Church is under attack, but it is standing firm

poland’s bishops recently commemorated the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the second world war with their german counterparts. their sh...

Jonathan Luxmoore

Forget 'kiddie music', children love plainchant

in epiphany parish, where i’m the parochial administrator, reports are streaming in of children chanting kyrie eleisons while playing with t...

Fr Michael Rennier

Newman's profoundly subversive advice for Christian politicians

is a christian who believes that abortion is wrong in every case or that marriage can only be between a man and a woman suitable for public ...

German media accuse Francis of 'stabbing bishops in the back'

a vatican cardinal’s warning that plans for a binding synodal process in germany appear to be “ecclesiologically invalid” and not in accorda...

Anian Christoph Wimmer

How America embraced Newman

the recent news that the bishop of northampton has declined to move forward with the cause for the canonisation of gk chesterton was not wel...

Are deacons really 'celebrating Mass' in the Amazon?

sandro magister, the veteran vaticanista for italy’s l’espresso, wrote a column last week headlined “in the amazon married deacons are alrea...

Christopher R. Altieri

The growing worldwide threat to confessional secrecy

the australian state of victoria has passed a new mandatory reporting law, which does not respect the seal of the confessional. the bill had...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from St Paul to Salta

st paul, minnesota first abuse investigation under new bishops’ law an archbishop will investigate cover-up allegations against a local bish...

Meanwhile: Abba inside the Vatican, 'Day of Sobriety'

you might imagine that vatican officials would only listen to monteverdi and palestrina. but archbishop paul gallagher, the holy see’s forei...