Vatican Says it Would Welcome Visit by Trump
If U.S. President Donald Trump requests a meeting with Pope Francis in May, the Vatican will try to make it work, a top Vatican official said. “Pope...
April 2017
Image and Imagination: Devotions are not the same for all
We’ve just had the feast of the Divine Mercy, a devotion started by St Faustina in Poland and widely promoted by St John Paul II. All around the...
In a Fortress with the Crusaders
In February GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER made a private visit to the Holy Land. In the last in a series of six articles, he visits the Crusader city of...
Celibacy Nowhere Required by God
Romany Rubin, Pretoria – I read the interview with Fr Michael Fuller on clerical celibacy with interest (March 15). Chastity is one thing, lifelong celibacy is another....
Luther’s Impact 500 Years after Reformation
The issue of papal authority was the one point that led Martin Luther to break from the Catholic Church, according to a Catholic University of America professor...
Church Recognises Marriages by SSPX
Continuing initiatives aimed at a reconciliation with the Society of St Pius X, Pope Francis has made it possible for bishops to ensure the validity of marriages...
Prayer: Lessons from the Women
In the weeks after Easter we hear a number of accounts in which the risen Jesus encounters his somewhat perplexed and disheartened friends. These personal encounters are...
1,28 Billion Catholics; Half are in Ten Countries
Taken together, the ten countries with the most Catholics account for almost 56% of the world’s Catholic population, the Vatican reported. The 2017 Annuario Pontificio, or Vatican...
Fatima Seers to be Canonised in May
Pope Francis will declare the sainthood of Bl Jacinta Marto and Bl Francisco Marto, two of the shepherd children who saw Mary in Fatima, Portugal, during his...
A Church Powered by the Son and Sun
A church in the US has switched to solar power and found that the new awareness and spirituality has been a blessing… The sign outside Our Mother...
