Vatican News

Trump can't dictate China policy to the Pope, says Vatican's top diplomat

rome – the vatican’s top diplomat has said that a controversial deal with china on the appointment of bishops will continue “regardless of r...
The Catholic Herald

Tales of Tallinn: How Estonia's religious history casts a long and dark shadow

fed up with the fickle english weather, i decided i wanted beauty and beer so booked a last-minute weekend trip to tallinn. in addition to t...
Serenhedd James

Vatican breaks silence on Trump: will 'seek dialogue', says key papal aide

the vatican will “seek dialogue” with president-elect donald trump, attempting to put aside previous conflicts between pope francis and trum...
Crux Staff

The 'horrifying', 'brutal' and unspoken truth of what assisted suicide is really like

rather predictably, lord carey of clifton, the former archbishop of canterbury, has popped up in the debate on assisted suicide to repeat a ...
Simon Caldwell

Opening the Bible for spiritual growth

there are many and various ways for us to approach and encounter god. there is no one means of prayer has a monopoly over our journey to god...
Fr Jeffrey Kirby C

St Birinus Music Festival to celebrate Allhallowtide with the music of 'commemoration' – Gregorian chant

a musical performance is strikingly akin to an act of commemoration. it is the job of musicians to commune with composers who, more often th...
Ryan Wigglesworth

Synod displayed Catholicism's uncanny ability to frustrate just about everyone

from the beginning, one of the most persistent charges against pope francis’s synod of bishops on synodality, which got underway in 2021 and...
John L Allen

The Genius of St Mark: A brilliant – but often misunderstood – Gospel gem

this september we return, after our excursion into the gospel of st john, to a sequential reading of st mark’s gospel, picking up at the beg...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool archdiocese U-turns over church closure where Victorian mystic had ecstasies

the catholic church in which victorian mystic teresa higginson was said to have received rapturous visions of the crucifixion has been saved...
Simon Caldwell

Venezuela bishops demand government come clean about election results

são paulo, brazil – amid widspread claims of fraud surrounding elections in july that supposedly ended in the narrow reelection of president...
EduardoCamposLima