Vatican News

Paintings and perverts: the horrid legacy of Eric Gill

Eric Gill’s Annunciation is the centrepiece of a powerful exhibition at Ditchling Museum, where works of beauty sit uneasily alongside the artist’s crimes.
Camilla Harrison

Pope refuses to take sides in Senator Durbin award controversy

Instead the Pope stressed that the Church’s pro-life witness must extend beyond the abortion debate
The Catholic Herald

The Catholic Church cannot ordain women: the Church is divine – and divinity doesn’t ‘adapt’  

Better to be called obstinate than to surrender the sacraments. Better to scandalise polite opinion than to mutilate what has been entrusted by God himself. Better to be decried as old-fashioned than to cease to be Catholic
Samantha Smith

Musical supremo John Gilhooly discusses his life, work and faith in Britain and Ireland

The artistic director of London's famous Wigmore Hall discusses how sacred music gets to parts of the psyche that rational argument doesn't reach, how 'it's easier to be a Catholic in Britain than in Ireland', and much more
Melanie McDonagh

Students create covert contraceptive supply system in defiance of Catholic university ban

Students at the largest Catholic university in the US have launched a covert contraception network after administrators shut down their Planned Parenthood-affiliated group.
The Catholic Herald

No peace in our time

Lucien de Guise reviews ‘Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum’ at the Barbican, a timely and unsettling exhibition exploring fragility, violence, and the human form.
Lucien de Guise

British archbishop calls out UN over silence on Christian persecution

Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Archbishop Paul Gallagher accused world leaders of ignoring the plight of persecuted Christians, warning that over 360 million believers face violence or discrimination.
Thomas Edwards

Archbishop Longley appointed to Vatican dicastery role

the holy see has announced the appointment of archbishop bernard longley of birmingham as a consultor to the commission for religious relati...
Niwa Limbu

Pope to name Newman Doctor of the Church on All Saints’ Day

Pope Leo XIV will confer the title of Doctor of the Church on St John Henry Newman on 1 November, marking the first such declaration of his pontificate and affirming Newman’s lasting influence on Catholic theology and education.
The Catholic Herald

Traditional Latin Mass offered at St Peter’s Basilica

A Solemn High Mass in the traditional Latin rite was celebrated at a main altar of St Peter’s Basilica on the Feast of St Michael, marking the first public use of the 1962 Missal in the basilica since restrictions were introduced in 2021.
Niwa Limbu