To an unseen audience, Bocelli raised his voice in prayer
May 15, 2020
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It was time for the singers. And in devastated Italy, post-Pavarotti, that could only mean Andrea Bocelli. Hence the grace-filled
The other reason for Cardinal Tagle’s promotion
May 12, 2020
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It may have been a sign of papal favour – but it also helps to balance an increasingly elderly leadership class
As the Queen knows, history and faith are our best consolations
May 5, 2020
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The comfort of history – uniquely evoked by a Queen who lived through so much of it – is that what might seem difficult, or even impossible, has already been accomplished
Even in ‘respectable’ countries, the justice system can be corrupted
April 17, 2020
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The Holy See expressed ’utmost respect’ for the Australian justice system. That could only create confusion
The Triduum gains a new meaning in this year of deprivation
April 9, 2020
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The coronavirus pandemic has deprived Catholics the world over of much of their Lenten liturgical life. During Holy Week that
Pope Francis’s signature moment
April 2, 2020
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The pandemic Urbi et Orbi was a signal moment – perhaps the signature moment – in the pontificate of Pope
Lent’s long Gospels prepare us to be transformed at Easter
March 26, 2020
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Sunday Mass, if we were able to go to it, would be a bit longer these weeks, even without the
When someone leaves the Church, how do we pastors respond?
March 19, 2020
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Mary McAleese is still leaving the Catholic Church. Or considering it at least. Or threatening it. The former president of
A synod on synodality risks being self-referential
March 12, 2020
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The seventh anniversary of Pope Francis (March 13) falls at a time when the pontificate’s agenda has run into difficulty
Why didn’t Pius call Vatican II?
March 5, 2020
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The opening this week of the Vatican archives from the pontificate of the Venerable Pius XII offers a chance for
Jean Vanier and the cult of the founder
February 27, 2020
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The results of L’Arche’s investigation into their founder, Jean Vanier, were devastating on three levels. The news that the man
Is the dream of Francis as the ‘great liberal reformer’ dead?
February 20, 2020
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Last week brought us the much-anticipated “post-synodal apostolic exhortation”. Is there any less lovely combination of words on the Vatican