The Pope urged Patriarch Kirill not to be "Putin's altar boy". The Patriarchate responded with a story about NATO
Hour ago The BBC News Russian Service app is available for IOS and Android . You can also subscribe to our Telegram channel. image copyrightTASS/Spaziani Pope Francis,…
Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell: at last, the biography John Donne deserves
“Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” (Revelations 3:16.) Whatever problems God had with his servant John…
Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell: at last, the biography John Donne deserves
“Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” (Revelations 3:16.) Whatever problems God had with his servant John…
Mystery wave of attacks on Catholic churches and statues across US leaves priests stumped
But Mr Haas, who began tracking the attacks on parishes in northern Colorado when he noticed they were on the rise, said he saw other potential motivations…
Does Paul Verhoeven’s controversial ‘nunsploitation’ film betray the real Benedetta?
Even when he departs from her account of Benedetta Carlini, whose story she unearthed by accident in the late 1970s in Florence’s Medici archives as an aspiring…
Benedetta, review: Paul Verhoeven’s story of a wild lesbian nun is as outrageous as you’d expect
How, in a biopic, might one go about telling the life story of Benedetta Carlini, a 17th-century lesbian nun who became abbess of the Tuscan convent at…
Benedetta, review: Paul Verhoeven’s story of a wild lesbian nun is as outrageous as you’d expect
How, in a biopic, might one go about telling the life story of Benedetta Carlini, a 17th-century lesbian nun who became abbess of the Tuscan convent at…
Were Jesus’s female disciples cut out of the gospels?
It is one of the peculiarities of Catholicism that while women make up around two-thirds of congregations in churches I attend, they cannot be priests – and…
Catholic school cancels gay author on World Book Day
Another parent said she was in “utter shock” at the decision to cancel the event. “I felt shocked that in this day and age, in 2022, there’s…
The woke Pope epitomises liberal illiberalism
The Pope, you have probably read, is ever-smiling, merciful and tolerant. Towards some, that might be true; for others, it’s a cruel joke. His treatment of traditional…
England’s Catholic churches are scrapping confirmations in Latin as Pope Francis seeks modernisation
Catholic churches in England have begun scrapping Latin confirmation services amid Pope Francis’s drive to modernise the church. For Christians, the three separate sacraments, or rites of…
Nothing Compares, review: powerful, heartening portrait of Sinead O’Connor as a heroic figure
Shaped by childhood abuse both personal and institutional, as a rebellious teenager O’Connor was sent to be raised by nuns in a cloistered order. It was also…
We must have as many babies as possible
After the Pope said it was selfish to raise pets rather than kids, I turned on the radio to hear the public’s verdict. Apart from some anti-Catholic…
For Catholics, the last rites is the fourth emergency service. It should be recognised as such
The killing of MP Sir David Amess in October during a constituency surgery shocked not only people in Britain but those who knew him in Rome. Sir…