Vatican News

Pope Francis: 'A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite'

Christians and Jews 'share the same roots', Pope Francis said
Courtney Grogan/CNA

For All Souls' Day, Pope Francis prays in cemetery for unborn children

The Pope celebrated Mass at the Laurentino Cemetery, also known as the 'Garden of Angels'
Courtney Grogan/CNA

'God has become my light' A Chinese teen’s conversion story

'It is true. It is not only a better theology. It is the true theology'
Courtney Grogan/CNA

The mysterious removal of Bishop Holley

The Vatican ousted Martin Holley as Bishop of Memphis, but no one seems sure why
Michael Warren Davis

How Agatha Christie helped to save the Latin Mass

An unlikely intervention by England’s cultural luminaries rescued the Tridentine Mass from threatened extinction
Joseph Shaw

Bishops: Memphis mystery

why did the vatican oust bishop martin holley? on october 24, pope francis removed bishop martin holley from the diocese of memphis without ...
Michael Warren Davis

Youth Synod: Continental shift

african bishops don’t share their western counterparts’ doom and gloom some general assemblies of the synod of bishops have been more closel...
Christopher R. Altieri

Sense and synodality

as the youth synod entered its final week, there was an air of optimism among the bishops. they had spent almost a month listening to the co...
The Catholic Herald

How to decentralise a Church

since his election in 2013, pope francis has often expressed the desire for a more “synodal” style of church life, and commentators on catho...
Fr Mark Drew

Dreamy, languid and above all beautiful

the pre-raphaelite artist sir edward burne-jones was once asked by a young girl if he believed the story he had painted in the star of bethl...
David V Barrett