Vatican News

‘Ireland is led by fools': an interview with John Waters

Catholic writer John Waters believes his country is blighted by mediocrity – but ‘a better day will dawn’

A strange response

catholics were starting to wonder whether the vatican would ever respond to archbishop carlo maria viganò’s passionate and sometimes ramblin...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣ vatican breaks silence on mccarrick case what happened? pope francis has ordered a “thorough study” of vatican files relating to archbisho...

Papal telescopes: Heavens above

the vatican observatory is being opened up to the public when people ask why the vatican has an observatory, one jesuit priest says it’s bec...

India: Bishops on trial

out of nowhere, catholics face a leadership crisis on two fronts the catholic church in india has just faced one of the most challenging sum...

The elephant in the synod

amid procedural changes and doctrinal tension, one issue hangs over this month’s meeting in rome hilaire belloc once remarked that the catho...

Christopher R. Altieri

Fr Raymond J de Souza: Right saint, wrong place

i will be in rome for the canonisation of blessed oscar romero this sunday, but i wish i weren’t – in rome, that is. i would have preferred ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

When the Old Mass came to Balham

st bede’s has become one of london’s great liturgical churches. the departing parish priest explains how it all began st bede’s church, clap...

The synod is all too respectable

when pope francis was elected five years ago, he announced that he wanted to build a “poor church for the poor”. at the synod on youth takin...

Matthew Schmitz

‘Ireland is led by fools'

john waters’s career in irish journalism lasted for more than 30 highly successful years before he quit what he thinks has become an “ideolo...