Vatican News

Archbishop Fisher: what paralysis taught me about euthanasia

before you say “he would say that, he’s a bishop,” please hear me out. when it comes to calls for euthanasia, i get it, i really do. a few y...
Archbishop Anthony Fisher

What Putin wants from the Pope

russian president vladimir putin must have been nervous. pope francis’s foreign policy has been agreeable to moscow. but ominous clouds were...
Fr Raymond de Souza

The booming monasteries that are running out of cells

among the most startling aspects of the post-vatican ii era of the catholic church has been the dramatic decline of vocations to the religio...
Jim Graves

Diary: The Vatican is surprisingly good at cricket

i have spent the past several days in rome at the head of a rather wonderful cricket team, the stonyhurst gentlemen’s xi. the team is compri...
Stephen Withnell

The week in quotations

"a confessor’s defence of the sacramental seal , if necessary, even to the point of shedding blood." the apostolic penitentiary, a&nbsp...
Staff writers

The big story: Vatican – Chinese priests don't need to register with government

what happened? the vatican has given guarded support to chinese priests who refuse to register with the government. a new document says that...
Staff writers

The Vatican's guidelines may not be enough to save underground Catholics

last week the vatican made its most important intervention on china since it announced a “provisional agreement” with the communist authorit...
The Catholic Herald

Have we forgotten how to celebrate Corpus Christi?

twenty years ago this week i was on retreat in france preparing for priestly ordination. i remember it as a time overflowing with gifts of g...
Fr Dominic Allain

Love, mission and morality: a century of Eucharistic theology

the international eucharistic congress: a spiritual odyssey by john f allen gracewing, 383pp, £20/$27.50 in this book mgr john allen, who ha...
Fr Nicholas Paxton

Letters & emails

the meaning of a catholic business sir – christopher altieri, in the cover story of the june 14 edition entitled “the other scandal”, mentio...
The Catholic Herald