Vatican News

Accountability at the Vatican: Special treatment

the mccarrick case has revealed a defect in the system if the allegations against cardinal theodore mccarrick are true, they represent a mic...

Christopher R. Altieri

Dallas Charter: Back to the drawing board

do the current child protection norms need a radical overhaul? the scandal of cardinal theodore mccarrick’s alleged abuse has just become ev...

Michael Warren Davis

Consecrated virgins: Body and soul

the vatican has caused alarm by saying consecrated virgins need not be virgins since 1970, when the rite of consecration of virgins was rein...

Bishops on the barricades

shaky video footage shows priests processing with the blessed sacrament through the low-walled streets of sébaco. this is no ordinary day in...

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A millennial problem

is pope francis, like donald trump, guilty of abject capitulation to russia’s vladimir putin? that question was raised by one of the most re...

Fr Raymond de Souza

How not to get rich

losing your religion can be good for your wealth, claims a new study carried out by the universities of bristol and tennessee. it argues tha...

Comments of the week

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The Catholic Herald

Arts essay: A good man who was so nearly Catholic

in one of those gorgeous verbal doodles with which he filled the pages of his absorbing (and at the time quite illegal) wartime journal, hug...

Matthew Walther

Film: A thoughtful take on the miracle industry

how can the church deal with claims of apparitions in an increasingly secular, disbelieving world? that is one of the questions at the heart...

A walk through the ‘side passages’ of religion

city of the good by michael bell, princeton, 360pp, £25 i like it when a book opens with an epiphany. michael bell, a sociology professor at...