With testimony from parishioners such as, in an article for this week’s I record how the parish community of Ledbury has been shattered by its priest giving the Old Rite pride of place and clearing Sunday for the Latin Mass Society.

In a video message sent on Aug. 13 to the religious orders of Latin America, Pope Francis touched on a theme dear to his heart: the inseparability of evangelization and inculturation.

“Of all the instruments to use to coerce a politician…the Eucharist!” My friend, a senior Vatican official from Latin America, blurted out his shock as we discussed the majority vote at the U.S. bishops’ meeting in June in favor of a document on “eucharistic coherence.”

While the optics of Boris Johnson's marriage in a Catholic church this weekend suggest a double standard, in fact the church seems to be treating him the same it would any divorced Catholic seeking to remarry.

Asking the world’s charismatic Catholics to take up the invitation of a little known 1970s document urging service of the poor may not seem, at first glance, a radical move.

No pope has spoken with such candour about his health, physical and mental, as Francis. Austen Ivereigh sums up the diagnosis.

Just as the true meaning of the Eucharist needs to be defended from those who would use it for publicity, it needs to be defended from those who would use it to divide the worthy from the unworthy.

Toward the end of March I suggested to Pope Francis that this might be a good moment to address the English-speaking world: the pandemic that had so affected Italy and Spain was now reaching the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. Without promising anything, he asked me to send some questions.

A new book by John Cornwell describes the welcome interruption of Francis’s papacy.

Pope Francis’s new book offers a vision for a politics rooted in solidarity.