Pope Francis says most marriages today are ‘invalid’. This is a disaster for the Catholic Church
Pope Francis, spiritual leader of a billion people, has just informed them that ‘the great majority’ of sacramental marriages are invalid…
Pope used Argentinian ‘ghostwriter’ for controversial document on the family, claims Vatican expert
The leading Vatican commentator Sandro Magister – a conservative Catholic detested by the Pope’s entourage – this morning published an article that will severely…
Catholic bishops split over Brexit as Archbishop accuses Osborne of ‘ludicrous’ scaremongering
Archbishop Peter Smith, the Catholic Archbishop of Southwark – whose diocese covers all of London south of the Thames – has…
Pope Francis’s revolution has been cancelled
Here’s the beginning of the Guardian’s report on Amoris Laetitia (Joy of Love), Pope Francis’s response to the Synod on…
Will Catholic bishops try to scare their flocks into voting against Brexit?
The Catholic bishops of England and Wales – and the separate hierarchy for Scotland, for that matter – have long…
Sir James MacMillan mourns the little granddaughter who brought ‘cosmic love’ to his family
Just before Christmas, the Catholic Herald named the composer Sir James MacMillan as its first Catholic of the Year. The award…
And the Holy Smoke Lefty Bore of the Year award goes to…
…. Bonnie Greer. Which is a shame, because before Twitter she was feisty and thought-provoking. Just two years ago she came in…
Pope Francis condemns Catholic ‘fundamentalists’ and hints at support for use of condoms against Aids
Pope Francis has used another mid-flight press conference to make a statement of significance to millions of Catholics. Asked if the Church…
Exclusive translation: the Pope says Paris attacks are part of a Third World War
An Italian religious TV station, TV2000, has posted this audio clip of Pope Francis – sounding distressed and tearful –…
Why is Pope Francis’s leadership such a confusing mess? This may be the answer…
This week the Catholic Herald published a blog post by Dr Edward Condon, an American canon lawyer, that began with a…
Has Pope Francis just said that ‘all the divorced who ask’ will receive Holy Communion?
The aggressively traditionalist Catholic website Rorate Caeli is tonight announcing that Pope Francis has dropped a ‘bombshell’ in an interview…
The Vatican Synod on the Family is over and the conservatives have won
This afternoon the Vatican Synod on the Family amended and approved the final document summing up three weeks of chaotic and…
‘Farce’ and ‘verbiage’ behind the scenes at the Pope’s synod: an Aussie archbishop spills the beans…
Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane is one of the bishops who’ll be voting on the final report of the Synod…
Is this the future Pope Francis casually passing Holy Communion into a crowd?
I first saw the YouTube film from which these photographs are taken over a year ago. I’m surprised it hasn’t…
Pope Francis is now effectively at war with the Vatican. If he wins, the Catholic Church could fall apart
Pope Francis yesterday gave an address to the profoundly divided Synod on the Family in which he confirmed his plans to…
This week the Catholic Church is in chaos. And Pope Francis is to blame
The Catholic Church is this week in the biggest mess it’s been in since the Second Vatican Council, and Pope…
Cardinal Pell: ‘no possibility’ of liberals getting their way on Communion for divorced and remarried
Cardinal George Pell, Prefect of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy, has just issued a statement saying there is ‘no…
Crisis for Pope Francis as top-level cardinals tell him: your synod could lead to the collapse of the church
Update, 3.20pm Monday: As I write this, various cardinals have said they didn’t sign the letter, some of them waiting…
Three things you need to know about Pope Francis and the cardinal disgraced in a sex abuse scandal
This picture of Pope Francis apparently talking to retired Belgian cardinal Godfried Danneels at the Synod on the Family, which began…
The Vatican ‘Family synod’ and the sex abuse scandal that could engulf Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s three-week Synod on the Family began on Sunday. Most of the 279 ‘Synod Fathers’ are senior bishops, many…
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