The Holy Father has authorised the recently appointed Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Global Warming and Ice-Cap Preservation to draw up new clauses for …
Compare and Contrast
Grant your faithful, we pray, almighty God,the resolve to run forth to meet your Christwith righteous deeds at his coming,so that, gathered at his right …
Many Happy Returns?
Tomorrow (the first Sunday of Advent) is the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction, throughout the Church, of the Novus Ordo. So what is there to celebrate? …
Addenda anyone?
Fr Antonio Spadaro, in an article in La Civilta Catholica, reveals that the Holy See – in a spirit of openness and generosity – is ready to …
Cardinal Greta
According to reliable Vatican sources, Pope Francis has abandoned previous plans to anoint Cardainal Tagle or Cardinal Schoenborn as his putative successor, and to elevate …
A Caucus Race
The Man Booker Prize was this year won jointly by Margaret Attwood and Bernardine Evaristo: two feminist writers, one black one white. Lawrence Abu Hamdan, …
Women and the Church
Some would claim that the final document of the Amazon Synod – at least in its conclusions about the role of women – was a …