Vatican News

Pope Francis ‘helps SSPX in its plans for new headquarters in Rome’

Il Foglio newspaper says the Pope helped to speed up the purchase of a church and complex

Francis becomes first pope to visit Rome's Anglican church

Pope says Anglicans and Catholics must be 'always more liberated from our respective prejudices from the past'

Associated Press

Sorry, Fr Sosa, but we must take Jesus literally on marriage

The Church has been 'discerning' about Christ's teaching for two millennia. There is only one possible conclusion

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

First books of the Bible show God's love for humanity, says Francis

The Pope told Jewish scholars that the Torah showed 'paths of goodness [that we] must walk together'

Football, like life, requires thinking of others, Pope tells Villarreal team

Pope Francis met Villarreal ahead of their cup match in Rome

Associated Press

The papal almoner goes on a shopping spree in earthquake-hit central Italy

Mgr Konrad Krajewski will donate his shopping bags – filled with cheese and prosciutto – to soup kitchens in Rome

Associated Press

A beautiful Church for the poor

Post-Vatican II ugliness coincided with a collapse in the Church’s ministry to the marginalised. When beauty returns, so will Catholicism’s universal appeal

Matthew Schmitz

The big story of the past seven days

✣  roe v wade plaintiff turned pro-lifer dies at 69 what happened? norma mccorvey, the roe of the infamous us abortion judgment roe v w...

Church teaching ‘does not vary by region’

cardinal gerhard müller, the vatican’s doctrinal chief, has said that local bishops should not give “contradictory interpretations of doctri...

Our bishops face an Amoris dilemma

when archbishop charles chaput of philadelphia issued pastoral guidelines on amoris laetitia last july, not everyone was pleased. critics di...

Madeleine Teahan