Bishop asks for prayers for burglar who stole cross given to him by Benedict XVI
Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, in Nebraska, is asking Catholics to pray for “a conversion of heart” of the person who stole his pectoral cross on Saturday. The cross was stolen from his home, when the...
View ArticleFrench cardinal breaks his leg in St Peter’s Basilica for a second time
Pope Francis visited Cardinal Roger Etchegaray in hospital on Sunday night, after the cardinal fell while greeting the Pontiff at the end of Mass in St Peter’s Basilica earlier in the day. According to...
View ArticleBooks blog: A fitting tribute to John Paul II, the extraordinary saint
Our parish priest, a Pole whose parents came to the UK after the War and who is thus thoroughly anglicised, is celebrating his birthday at the end of November. As he never uses a computer, doesn’t go...
View ArticleVatican places two Italian journalists under investigation in leaks probe
The Vatican has announced it has placed two Italian journalists under investigation in its probe over leaked documents that appear to reveal waste, greed and mismanagement by the Church’s hierarchy....
View ArticleFive charged in Vatican leaks investigation
A Vatican judge on Saturday charged five people, including two journalists and a high-ranking Vatican monsignor, in a scandal involving leaked documents that informed two books alleging financial...
View ArticleMission abandoned: did we betray John XXIII’s vision for Vatican II?
Fifty years after the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council, the Church is still bedevilled by competing and often mutually antagonistic answers to the question, “What was it all about?” The...
View ArticleRemembering the time when a pope ‘ruined Christmas’
As you perhaps know, Facebook has a feature whereby it greets you every morning with your ‘memories’: that is, with some random posts you made on this day in years past. I quite like all this: the...
View ArticleWhat’s inside this week’s Catholic Herald?
Cover story… This week Robert Wagas explains why Putin hitting ISIS doesn’t mean he wants to save Syria’s Christians More comment… Fr Raymond J de Souza looks forward to serving as a ‘missionary of...
View ArticlePope Francis ‘considering Scotland visit’
Pope Francis could make a flying visit to Scotland in September, according to reports. The Pope has “pencilled in” a short visit to St Andrews to sign a charter calling on all faiths to unite against...
View ArticleEvery cardinal should watch ‘Spotlight’, says former Vatican abuse prosecutor
Every bishop and cardinal must watch the film Spotlight, the Vatican’s former chief prosecutor of clerical sex abuse cases has said, so they realise reporting abuse, not silence, will save the Church....
View ArticleFr Federico Lombardi to stay Vatican spokesman, but retires as head of radio...
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi will retire as head of Vatican Radio on February 29, as the Secretariat for Communications takes on the general administration of the radio station. Giacomo Ghisani, an...
View ArticlePope Francis to visit Auschwitz in July
Pope Francis will visit the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau during a July 27-31 visit to Poland for the celebration of World Youth Day, the Polish bishops announced. Up to 2.5...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 15/03/16
The Vatican is expected to approve the canonisation of Mother Teresa today. Pope Francis will wash the feet of refugees on Holy Thursday, according to reports. Cardinal Wilfrid Napier has submitted his...
View ArticleMeet the cowboy, samurai and surfer saints
As had been widely anticipated, in September the sainthood of Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be officially – and infallibly – recognised by the Church militant (Ecclesia militans). That is, I’m afraid,...
View ArticlePope Benedict: Yearning for mercy is a sign of longing for God’s love
Although he lives a relatively hidden life in a villa in the Vatican Gardens, retired Pope Benedict XVI continues to study modern theological questions and, occasionally, to comment on them publicly....
View ArticleBenedict XVI grasped the nature of the new age of terrorism. Why did nobody...
It is almost 15 years since New York was struck by the terrorist gang led by Osama bin Laden. New York was the first city to be attacked in this way, and 9/11 marked the beginning of the new age of...
View ArticlePope Francis tells Twitter followers ‘Thank God for Benedict XVI’ as Pope...
Pope Francis has said we should give thanks for Benedict XVI on the Pope Emeritus’s 89th birthday. “Today is Benedict XVI’s birthday,” he tweeted. “Let us remember him in our prayers and thank God for...
View ArticleCardinal Ortega, who played key role in US-Cuba diplomatic thaw, retires
Cardinal Jaime Ortega, who oversaw a warming of relations with Cuba’s Communist government and played a role in the secret negotiations that led to US-Cuba detente, has stepped down, the Vatican. An...
View ArticleFrancis to hold unprecedented meeting with top Sunni Muslim leader
Pope Francis will receive the highest authority in Sunni Islam in an unprecedented meeting at the Vatican on Monday. The meeting between Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar, Cairo, and Pope...
View ArticleBenedict XVI denies latest rumours about Fatima ‘secret’
Sixteen years after the Vatican released the text of the so-called Third Secret of Fatima, rumours cyclically arise claiming that the Vatican still is keeping part of Mary’s message to three children...
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