Vatican News

German cardinals clash over Amoris Laetitia

the debate over communion for the remarried has intensified, after the vatican’s doctrinal chief and the council of german bishops made diam...
Staff writers

In brief

francis and trump could meet in may pope francis and the new us president donald trump are likely to meet for the first time in may, it was ...
Staff writers

The ‘translation wars’ are not over

under benedict xvi, the outlook for liturgical conservatives in the church looked more promising than ever. two of benedict’s most significa...
Madeleine Teahan

Pope Francis’s traditionalists

on the weekend that posters of a scowling pope francis were plastered over rome by traditionalists protesting against his “bullying” tactics...
Damian Thompson

A guide to Catholic ultra-traditionalists

the sspx is often referred to in the secular media as an “ultra-traditionalist” or “extremist” body. this risks exhausting the adjectives ne...
Dan Hitchens

The Vatican’s stripped-down sovereignty

the knights of malta crisis brought rare attention to the issue of sovereignty for entities that are not territorial states – like the holy ...
Fr Raymond de Souza

My Vatican journey

through the centre of siena runs the ancient pilgrimage route known as the via francigena, which begins in canterbury and ends in rome. last...
Sally Axworthy

Eating your way to happiness

carmine pariante may be the most important scientist you’ve never heard of. he is a professor of biological psychiatry at king’s college, lo...
Rachel Kelly

Comments of the Week

francis’s guiding light for the remarried sir – david baugh, a divorced catholic now in a happy, stable relationship with a widowed lady, re...
The Catholic Herald

Why Catholics can’t fill America’s moral vacuum

strangers in a strange land by charles j chaput, henry holt, £20 archbishop charles chaput has been one of the bright stars of the american ...
Gerald Russello