Vatican News

Cardinal Zen: 'It seems the Vatican-China deal is not proceeding. That's good'

Cardinal Joseph Zen says that, in their desperation for a deal, the Pope's advisers seem to want 'success at any cost'

Megan Griffiths

The big story of the past seven days

✣   pope canonises two children who saw mary what happened? pope francis has canonised two shepherd children who saw mary at fatima on ...

China’s Catholics long for new era of healing

when china’s last empire, the qing dynasty, ended in 1911, christianity there entered what many scholars call the “golden age” of the missio...

Anthony E Clark

‘They think I don’t know anything’

the salesian house of studies has not changed much since it was built on a hong kong hillside in the 1930s. but the city around it has alter...

Megan Griffiths

Comments of the week

jesus would have agreed with corbyn sir – in his notebook (may 5), stephen daisley of the scottish daily mail dismisses jeremy corbyn’s labo...

The Catholic Herald

Theatre: Sam Mendes’s IRA drama is a triumph

the moment the royal court announced it was staging jez butterworth’s the ferryman , the whole season sold out and a west end transfer was g...

Pictures of the week

1 more than 900 visitors gathered recently in the abbey church in downside to welcome the national pilgrim virgin statue of our lady of fati...

The Catholic Herald

From storybooks to spirituality

my first love was literature – novels and poetry. as a child, i loved storybooks, mysteries and adventures. in grade school, i was made to m...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Euthanasia 'creates toxic and deadly pathologies' that hurt the weakest, says Cardinal Müller

The Vatican's chief of doctrine urged pro-life Canadians to continue the fight

Catholic News Service

First Medjugorje apparitions 'were real', Vatican commission reportedly found

The commission was apparently much more sceptical of the later apparitions