Vatican News

Omnium Gatherum

this week we encounter a liturgical unicorn. we shall celebrate the second sunday in ordinary time in the ordinary form of the roman rite, a...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

The quest for the ‘historical Jesus’ started early in Asia

jesus in asia by rs sugirtharajah harvard university press, 311pp, £21.95/$30 the quest for the historical jesus has been an obsession of we...

Jonathan Wright

Fellini's films mingle piety with paganism

fellini’s eternal rome by alessandro carrera bloomsbury, 186pp, £65/$80 no film conjured so memorably the flashbulb glitz and moral darkness...

Letters & emails

it’s not ‘loopy’ to explore homeopathy sir – in his article about prince charles’s role in relation to a disestablished church of england (f...

The Catholic Herald

The bishops making a dramatic appeal to the UN

two weeks after long-delayed elections were finally held in the democratic republic of the congo (drc) – the country with the largest cathol...

Jonathan Luxmoore

The Holy See now looks diplomatically isolated

pope francis chose multilateralism as the theme for his annual address to the diplomatic corps, delivered on january 7. two days before that...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The orders growing so fast that they are running out of room

much has been written over the past few decades about the dramatic decline of religious life in the united states since the close of the sec...

The new Sisterhood: traditional orders are booming

the blue-and-white clad sisters of the community of our lady of walsingham have recently acquired a new novitiate, a converted barn in dereh...

Why the Angolan government is closing hundreds of churches

up to 1,000 churches of various denominations have been shut down by authorities in angola, on the western coast of africa. a new law determ...

Filipe D'Avillez

A turning-point for Iraqi Christians? Not necessarily

iraq’s urbane and impressive new president, barham salih, has invited the pope to visit ur, home of abraham, in 2019. the invitation was ext...