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January 04, 2023

On the eve of Pope Benedict’s funeral: Notebook from Rome

January 04, 2023

Photo: Vatican Media The crowds are quieter this time. By comparison with the enormous throng of people – most of them Poles – who came to see Pope John Paul II lying in St Peter’s Basilica, the thousands queuing to pay their respects to Pope Benedict are fewer but even more diverse. I met a

Curbs on Traditional Latin Mass ‘broke Pope Benedict’s heart’

January 04, 2023

New curbs on the Traditional Latin Mass “broke Pope Benedict’s heart”, according to his private secretary. Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the closest confidant of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, revealed that the de facto reversal of his policies to liberate the Old Mass came as a heavy blow to the former pontiff, who died on Saturday at

World leaders bid farewell to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

January 04, 2023

Viktor Orbán was among world leaders to visit St Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Tuesday, where he paid his respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Photo: all rights reserved VATICAN CITY (January 3, 2023) Heads of state, cardinals, bishops, priests, religious and lay faithful continued on Tuesday and Wednesday to bid farewell to Pope Emeritus

Benedict XVI and my vocation to the priesthood

January 04, 2023

My generation of brother priests are those who sprang up buoyant from “the Benedict Bounce”: a phenomenon associated with the papal visit which breathed fresh life into the Catholic Church in Britain. It is all the more compelling that on face value alone it was nothing exterior that intrigued us about Pope Benedict, which we might typically have associated with celebrities. It was his gentleness and warmth, together with his phenomenal mind and beautiful theology, that spoke to us of his heart of prayer. He was holy man and, ultimately, holiness is the most attractive thing in the world.

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas: Journeying with the Magi

January 04, 2023

The Herald’s Deputy Editor joins the Magi as they make their way to Bethlehem, and takes the opportunity to reflect on their journey – and ours. Snow really does bring out my inner imp. I’ve known it in Wales, in London, in Oxford, in the United States – the impulse to mischief has always been