Vatican News

is it too soon to canonise 20th-century popes? while they live, all popes are styled “holiness”. the mode of address is a sort of “official”...

Christopher R. Altieri

the former nuncio’s intervention will change the american church on saturday, the national catholic register published a “testimony” written...

Michael Warren Davis

near la sapienza in rome – the modern campus of an old university – there is a church dedicated to an english philosopher, statesman and mar...

Andrew Cusack

september 1, 1978 the more we get to know pope john paul the more we like him. he was first described as the unknown pope but this merely go...

The Catholic Herald

we still don’t know much about john paul i, who was elected – and died – forty years ago forty years ago this week, cardinal albino luciani ...

Damian Thompson

the blistering indictment of pope francis by archbishop carlo maria viganò, published while the holy father was on a difficult trip to irela...

Fr Raymond de Souza

archbishop ngô đình thục left havoc in his wake, both in vietnamese politics and the spanish-speaking church it’s 1981 and the penitents of ...

Ned Donovan

why is the church still struggling to get a grip on a scandal that emerged decades ago? surveying the ravaged landscape of the church today,...

Christopher R. Altieri

the lives of the saints are replete with stories of notorious sinners who became exemplars of catholicism. few, though, are so unusual as th...

David Oldroyd-Bolt

royal books and holy bones by eamon duffy, bloomsbury, £25 there are historians – and then there is eamon duffy. this book resoundingly demo...

Dominic Selwood