Rare snowfall turns Vatican in a winter wonderland
Former Vatican official explores ‘lights and shadows of the Church’
Christ’s prayer at the Last Supper can be seen as ‘as instituting the Church’, the Pope says
After a groundbreaking meeting, Malaysia now has diplomatic relations with the Vatican. The country’s prime minister Najib Abdul Razak met with the Pope on Monday at Castel Gandolfo
Sister Elvira Maria de Witt has pioneering web ministry
Major-archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk issues invitation to Pope
Benedict XVI’s forthcoming trip to Benin will be his second to Africa
Benedict XVI arrived at Castel Gandolfo from Rome via helicopter. The Pope will be staying here for about three months, and plans to finish the third part of his book Jesus of Nazareth
Spanish Sister has spent 84 years living in cloistered convent
Pope says prayer for sufferers is his prayer intention for July
Thirty-nine archbishops received the pallium, a garment used as a sign of communion with the Pope
Benedict XVI launches a new Vatican website, news.va, with click on iPad
Pope leads procession through streets of Rome
Comment & Blogs
Today's Catholic must-reads: 08/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Dickens is disappointingly thin - give me AN Wilson anytime
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
If a woman is a priest, she can also be a bishop: if she’s not, she can’t. Either way, there is now only one way out for Catholic Anglicans: it’s over the Tiber
By William Oddie
More than any monarch, Queen Elizabeth II understands the spiritual element of her coronation oath
By Francis Phillips
Despite reports of violence, I feel totally safe walking around Mexico
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Is the ‘anthropogenic global warming’ consensus on the point of collapse? If so, this is just the right time for Chris Huhne to leave the Government
By William Oddie
Smacking laws are unworkable products of Left-wing middle class diktat
By Francis Phillips