In Roland Joffé’s film, The Mission, Jesuits in South America battled with a powerful Vatican cardinal who, after much agonising, decides to shut down their ministry to the Guarani people.
Francis uses appointment to try to ensure the Church continues on the trajectory he has set for it
Pope Francis reminds ambassadors that their role requires loyalty to the papacy
Pope Francis’ reforms of the Roman Curia will see the creation of a new “super ministry” dedicated to evangelisation
The Church must return to a faith that is alive, Pope Francis urged Catholics as he celebrated the Easter Vigil
Italian nun argued that Christ continues to be crucified in the migrants left to drown at sea
All religions must speak out against gap between super-rich and those so poor they are unable to feed their children.
Church leaders must shake off any sense of self-importance and adopt a ministry of service, Pope Francis told prisoners on Holy Thursday before washing their feet.
After finishing his talk the Pope stood up from behind his desk, walked over to the warring leaders of the world's youngest state and knelt down and kissed both of their feet.
Pope Francis will become the first pope to visit the United Arab Emirates when he travels to Abu Dhabi for an interfaith gathering early next year.
What happened when a six-year-old autistic boy, Wenzel, interrupted the Papal audience.
The appointment of the Archbishop of Malta, Charles Scicluna, to a senior position in the Vatican to tackle clerical sexual abuse came the day after the United States’ bishops were asked by Rome to delay voting on new accountability procedures. Christopher Lamb analyses these two developments, and how they give us an insight into where the Pope and the Church globally have got to when addressing what has become Catholicism’s biggest crisis in 500 years.
In an interview with The Tablet, Stephen Walford, a conservative British Catholic writer, argues why he believes the 'dubia' cardinals have misread Pius XII and how he believes Francis’ family life document helps divorced and remarried Catholics on their 'spiritual ascent'.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has issued a third intervention about alleged papal mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations made against a senior former cardinal
On Sunday 14 October, in a ceremony in St Peter’s Square, Pope Francis canonised Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI cementing these new saints as pillars of the contemporary Catholicism
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