Vatican News

Morning Catholic must-reads: 10/05/19

cardinal blase cupich has hailed the vatican’s new norms on reporting abuse as “revolutionary” . jesus and the pharisees “must have had much...
Luke Coppen

Letters & Emails

the betrayal of the church in china sir – your leader, “east of eden” (may 3), expresses timely if overly respectful doubt about current vat...
The Catholic Herald

The Week in Quotations

"christians are confused… each day in rome i receive discouraged and suffering priests. the church is going through the dark night" cardinal...
The Catholic Herald

How to... Pray for vocations

this sunday is the world day of prayer for vocations. it is an occasion set aside for asking our lord to serve his church with priests and r...
The Catholic Herald

From Washington to Rome, heresy accusations are back

on the evening of may 24 last year, 2,000 left-leaning christians gathered for a candlelit vigil outside the white house. the group’s leader...
Dan Hitchens

What next for the College of Cardinals?

there’s been lots of chatter over the past few weeks about a consistory for the creation of new cardinals. as of this writing, nothing has b...
Christopher R. Altieri

The Big Story: Academics accuse the Pope of heresy

what happened? a group of academics and priests have accused pope francis of committing the canonical crime of heresy. the group, which incl...
The Catholic Herald

In praise of Eucharistic Prayer I

as a new catholic, i know i have been naïve about a number of things. one of them was assuming that at mass at most churches on any given su...
Andrew Petiprin

Places, people and ancient instability

st mark the evangelist by serena fass, filament publishing (distributed by aid to the church in need uk), 315pp, £25/$30 serena fass is a re...
Lucien de Guise

Look closely and you can find the saints in Shakespeare

when most of us think of shakespeare we don’t immediately connect him with the saints. we might think of the play sir thomas more, on which ...
Joseph Pearce