Vatican News

The best of the web: Chinese demolitions, forgotten conservative thinker, Amazon synod protests

in china, 18 months of demolition at asia news, fr bernardo cervellera summarised the situation of chinese catholics. it includes “churches ...
Staff writers

The week ahead: Vatican documentary, Order's bicentenary, St Vincent de Paul

on friday, september 20 and 27, at 9pm, bbc two will broadcast a two-part documentary about the vatican. inside the vatican will look at the...
Staff Reporter

How to … Become a cardinal

these days, the prospects of becoming a cardinal are no longer increased by being a nephew of a reigning pope or by belonging to an illustri...
The Catholic Herald

The man who was the English-speaking world's gateway to the popes

to the question, “how many people actually work in the vatican?”, pope john xxiii supposedly replied, “about half.” it has become part of ca...
Fr Dominic Allain

Seeing Rome through the eyes of Oscar Wilde

great cities through travellers' eyes edited by peter furtado thames and hudson, 368pp, £19.99/$29.95 in this commendably ambitious book, th...
The Catholic Herald

What courageous Mexico can teach the Catholic world

understanding world christianity: mexico by todd hartch fortress, 268pp, £19.99/$29 the history of christianity in mexico is certainly event...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Letters: The sick must be anointed in good time

the sick must be anointed in good time sir – melanie mcdonagh’s mother (charterhouse, august 30) is blessed with a priest whose pastoral car...
The Catholic Herald

Resisting the Nazis with Newman

who today knows the legacy of john henry newman on conscience better than benedict xvi? he lived through the horrors of nazi germany and saw...
Paul Shrimpton

Beijing knows it is losing the battle of ideas over Hong Kong

almost exactly a year ago, the holy see and the chinese government signed an agreement on the appointment of bishops designed to “normalise”...
Benedict Rogers

With Cardinal Etchegaray's death, an era has ended

with the passing last week of cardinal roger etchegaray, we have taken a step closer to the end of an era in the life of the church: of clea...
Christopher R. Altieri