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The Pontifical Academy for Life—A Sequel

December 19, 2022

Photo: Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia watches as Pope Francis addresses the General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life on 5 October 2017. ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images In a recent comment piece commissioned by the Catholic Herald I addressed the clamour of concern raised in the Catholic media at some of the recent appointments to

Cardinal Ouellet sues for defamation over sexual assault accusations

December 14, 2022

Cardinal Ouellet said in a statement on Tuesday that he was suing a woman who accused him of sexual assault more than a decade ago when he was the archbishop of Quebec. A prominent figure at the Vatican, Canadian Cardinal Marc Armand Ouellet is the Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and President of the

Soiled hearts and bloodied fingers

December 02, 2022

The moral cost of the Sino-Vatican pact is far too great, argues Benedict Rogers

Spots and leopards: China violates the Sino-Vatican Pact

November 27, 2022

In a surprising development from the Vatican yesterday, a statement was released revealing that Chinese authorities had violated the terms stipulated in the provisional agreement between the Chinese Communist Party and the Holy See on the appointment of bishops. The Vatican statement comes in response to the installation of Bishop John Peng Weizhao as an “auxiliary bishop

Cardinal Zen convicted: when will Rome speak up for him?

November 27, 2022

On Friday Cardinal Joseph Zen was found guilty of failing to register a now-disbanded humanitarian fund which paid medical and legal fees for pro-democracy protesters. He was among five people connected with the fund to be convicted. The 90-year-old cardinal was fined HK$4,000 (about £420), the same amount as barrister Margaret Ng, scholar Hui Po-keung, politician Cyd Ho and

How ‘victimhood’ is destroying the Church

November 23, 2022

A misguided quest for equality in the Church is driving us further and further away from God, writes Gavin Ashenden As with chess, so with battles that the Church is engaged with at the hands of a hostile secular culture, there are just a few basic opening moves. In chess it’s often the “Rudy Lopez”,

German bishops vow to continue with reforms and be ‘Catholic in a different way’

November 21, 2022

Bishops from Germany last week pledged commitment to reforms to Catholic teaching that have been criticised by the Vatican. Bishop Georg Bätzing, the head of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), told reporters in Rome following a series of meetings with Pope Francis and other figures in the Vatican hierarchy that they wished to be “Catholic in

Synodality – an exercise in misreading St John Henry Newman and ‘Lumen gentium’

November 16, 2022

One consequence of writing for the Catholic Herald on the Synodal process is that it seems to make some people excitably angry. When Socrates urged on his listeners the important aphorism “know thyself”, the early Greeks had to attempt the process without the advantage of Twitter. I have had an advantage that earlier generations lacked