Vatican News

Mount Sinai: why the West must wake up to the erasure of Christianity in the Middle East

the last few decades have been terrible for christians in the levant and wider middle east. the iraq war and the rise of islamic state and a...
Alexander Stafford MP

Lebanese Church thrives against all odds maintaining 1,600-year link with Rome

when i recently visited lebanon with aid to the church in need (acn), i expected to find a suffering church. instead, i encountered a vibran...
Amy Balog

Pope Leo sets the tone while maintaining Francis’s mission to reform Curia

as pope leo xiv settles into his new role on the throne of peter, early indications suggest that he will respect and maintain the direction ...
Elise Allen

Pope Leo orders removal of Rupnik's 'rape art' from Vatican websites

images of artwork created by a disgraced celebrity cleric accused of rape have disappeared from official vatican media websites without expl...
The Catholic Herald

Biden-era FBI misled Congress over Catholic surveillance, documents reveal

newly released documents have confirmed that the fbi’s surveillance of traditionalist catholic communities was more extensive than previousl...
Thomas Edwards

Pope Leo XIV one month on

the so-called “rorschach test” stage of the papacy – in which people can project whatever they want onto the pope in this early period – con...
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV: the Holy Spirit challenges our digital isolation

pope leo xiv has marked pentecost sunday by describing how the holy spirit “is the gift that opens our lives to love" and opens borders in p...
Charles Collins

The liturgy that built the West: Cosima Gillhammer’s illuminating new book

cosima gillhammer’s new book about the liturgy may well foster a renewed appreciation for what has, for many, become routine; light on darkn...
Max Lau

True freedom means letting the Holy Spirit consume us like the 12 Apostles

“and divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them” (acts 2:3) pentecost was a feast when the jews offered burn...
Fr David Howell

Christian unity can't come from a ‘blueprint’, says Pope Leo

pope leo xiv has discussed how unity in the church won't come from "our own efforts" nor "through any preconceived model or blueprint", rath...
Charles Collins