Vatican News

Pope Francis meets 60,000 altar servers from around the world

The Pope told the servers to aspire to become saints

Junno Arocho Esteves

Contraception 'makes men egoists' and fuels sexual violence, papal theologian says

The contraceptive mentality allows men to think of women as objects, said Fr Wojciech Giertych

Catherine Sheehan

How Newman fell in love with the Blessed Sacrament

The reservation of the Blessed Sacrament in Catholic churches impressed and moved Newman more than anything else

Man thanks Australian saint for miracle Parkinson's cure

Ricky Peterson's symptoms disappeared immediately after praying at the tomb of St Mary MacKillop

Catherine Sheehan

1,030 years after the Baptism of Rus', the Vatican is turning its back on Ukrainian Catholics

Pragmatism towards Russian Orthodoxy is beginning to look like appeasement

Fr Raymond de Souza

It is irresponsible for a Catholic publication to liken Salvini to Satan

Famiglia Cristiana's description of the Italian Interior Minister is an extraordinary personal attack

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Is a Catholic mother’s place really in the home?

Why shouldn't Catholic motherhood be a career in itself?

Joanna Bullivant

Chapels desecrated, bishops assaulted: the attack on Nicaragua's Church

Nicaragua’s clergy are preaching peace. But President Ortega has accused them of plotting a coup

China is trying to bully me – but I won't be silenced

Threatening letters have been sent to my mother

Benedict Rogers

The big story of the past seven days

✣ cardinal faces explosive new abuse claim what happened? a man accused cardinal theodore mccarrick of abusing him for nearly 20 years from ...