This experience of exile taught the future pope that authentic sources of purification and renewal could be found there
Unless we act quickly, Islamism will ensure that the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia are Christian-free within a generation
Britain’s gutless churches are partly to blame for our synthetic, petulant outrage whenever we decide we’ve been ‘offended’
Perhaps it is part of the human condition to feel stuck between la dolce vita and the years of lead
St Francis was not above the magisterial teachings of the Church – and neither is the Pope
The attack on Charlie Hebdo was iconoclastic in the traditional sense – an attack on makers of images
John Beaumont’s book The Mississippi Flows into the Tiber is an impressive feat, and an invaluable tool for arguing with atheists
The cardinal portrays men as feeble victims of a ‘feminised’ Church. He should give them more credit than that
The ousted chairman of the Vatican bank tells his side of the story for the first time
Bella Dodd, who rejected Communism in favour of faith, is a lesson for young jihadis
Her story shows how easily the best human impulses can be twisted to evil