Vatican News

Vatican diplomacy has failed in Syria

The Vatican clearly has no leverage with Bashar al Assad, despite years of tolerating him

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Police dropped abuse investigation of cardinal

Kent Police decided the claim against the late Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor could not be substantiated

Archbishop Vigano issues new letter on Pope Francis and McCarrick

Viganò also called on Cardinal Ouellet to release information on McCarrick

Catholic News Agency

How the China deal betrays the Second Vatican Council

The Vatican's agreement with Beijing signifies the abandonment of Vatican II's political vision

Matthew Schmitz

Chinese puzzle

for years, the media have reported that the holy see is “poised” to make a deal with china over bishops’ appointments. last saturday, it fin...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣ pope calls unprecedented abuse summit what happened? two letters that benedict xvi wrote to his friend cardinal walter brandmüller last no...

In brief

warsaw apostolic visitor outlines plans to expand medjugorje a polish archbishop appointed by pope francis to oversee the marian shrine at m...

Traditional Latin Mass: Beyond borders

britain gains its first ‘personal parish’ for the extraordinary form “as a general rule,” the code of canon law says, “a parish is to be ter...

Diary: by Michael Hodges

i am writing this on the feast of our lady of walsingham, overlooking the terrace of villa palazzola outside rome, which offers stunning vie...

Orthodoxy on the brink

for centuries, the archbishops of constantinople could credibly claim to be the “ecumenical patriarch”. their see was the “new rome”, centre...