Michael Warren Davis, Author at Catholic Herald

Michael Warren Davis

Catholics arrested at immigration protest outside US Capitol

February 28, 2018

Bishop John Stowe of Lexington called for God's blessing on those acting in civil disobedience

Bishop denies Communion to pro-abortion senator

February 23, 2018

Senator Durbin was one of 14 Catholics to vote against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Bill

The cardinal who rebuked the Pope

February 22, 2018

Why did the Archbishop of Boston publicly confront the Pope over the case of a Chilean bishop?

The O’Malley surprise

February 22, 2018

Pope Francis is famously stubborn in the face of disagreement, especially when it comes from his own bishops. For more than a year he has refused to answer the four “dubia bishops” (two of whom have since died) who requested that he confirm the orthodoxy of certain passages of Amoris Laetitia that some theologians said

There is a major hole in the Church’s current argument on immigration

February 16, 2018

We cannot pretend that immigration is always a boon to the host-nation

Traditionalists have changed

February 15, 2018

I am a product of the traditionalist movement. My first Latin Mass did more to coax me into the Tiber than seven years of Catholic school, and I may not have converted at all were it not for Summorum Pontificum. (Former Anglo-Catholics rarely come to enjoy singing Dan Schutte hymns and holding hands for the

The Vatican’s diplomatic tangles

February 15, 2018

Vietnam Under the Diem regime, Catholicism was the de facto state religion of South Vietnam. The communist North therefore came to identify the Church with reactionary politics. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was created after the Vietnam War, has yet to establish diplomatic relations with the Holy See. In 1996 the then Mgr Pietro

Andy Warhol’s devotion was almost surreal

February 08, 2018

The Vatican Museums exhibition will be something of a homecoming for the artist

Andy Warhol’s devotion was almost surreal

February 08, 2018

On April 1, 1987, the most popular artists, actors, fashion designers, writers and musicians in America converged on St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Liza Minnelli showed up, along with Calvin Klein, Tom Wolfe and George Plimpton. Yoko Ono arrived a bit early; she was giving a speech. One could have easily mistaken Andy Warhol’s

As the Chile crisis deepens, all eyes turn to Cardinal O’Malley

February 06, 2018

Did the Pope's senior adviser on child abuse hand the Pontiff the explosive letter?

The Vatican’s big gamble on China

February 01, 2018

In 1996, a rising star in Vatican diplomacy named Fr Pietro Parolin brokered a deal with the Vietnamese government that helped to re-establish relations between the two sovereign states, which had been estranged since the fall of the Diệm regime. Under the terms of their agreement, Rome would recommend three candidates to a vacant bishopric.

Vatican and China: Cardinal Zen’s intervention raises some very uncomfortable questions

January 30, 2018

If the cardinal is right, the Vatican delegation in China went behind the Pope's back and defied his wishes

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