Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV has held his first official meeting with the Heads of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia, signalling the start of a new phase in Vatican governance amid expectations of wide-ranging personnel changes

Niwa Limbu

As Bonfire Night fades from the national calendar, the old anti-Catholic ritual is giving way to something more introspective. Thomas Colsey writes that as England’s bonfires die out, the memory of the faith they once sought to burn away is beginning to stir again

Thomas Colsy

Pope Leo XIV to consider a proposal to designate St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral as Dublin’s official Catholic cathedral, ending five centuries without a permanent seat for the city’s archbishops since the Reformation

The Catholic Herald

The Pontifical Swiss Guard has responded to an alleged antisemitic incident said to have taken place on 29 October during a papal audience at the Vatican

The Catholic Herald

Hilaire Belloc’s fierce intellect and fearless faith made him one of the most formidable Catholic voices of the twentieth century. Friend of G. K. Chesterton and champion of Christendom, he remains a towering defender of truth, tradition and the heritage of the Faith

Joseph Pearce

A Vatican compromise has ended months of controversy after two employees of the Institute for the Works of Religion were dismissed for marrying each other under a new rule forbidding spousal employment

Niwa Limbu

Pope Leo XIV marked the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica by urging that the Roman Rite be celebrated with fidelity, simplicity, and solemnity, describing the liturgy as the heart of the Church’s unity and mission

The Catholic Herald

Pope Leo XIV has met fifteen Belgians who were sexually abused by clergy as children, continuing the Vatican’s engagement with survivors. The three-hour audience in Rome was described as one of deep listening and prayer, marking another step in the Church’s ongoing confrontation with the legacy of clerical abuse

The Catholic Herald

The Vatican has opened an internal inquiry after a Swiss Guard was accused of making a contemptuous spitting gesture towards two Jewish women during a papal audience marking the anniversary of Nostra Aetate

The Catholic Herald

Many continue to look closely at the Holy Father’s every word and deed in the hope of finding a key to his pontificate, almost with the desire to use that key to open or close the portal of their good will according to a pre-set agenda

Dom Alcuin Reid