Posts By Date - Catholic Herald

January 30, 2024

African cardinal says Fiducia Supplicans has ‘damaged’ synodal process

January 30, 2024

ROME – An Africa cardinal who recently led the continent’s bishops in rejecting blessings for same-sex couples has now taken to task the timing of the Vatican document that opened the door to such a move, calling it “damaging” to the synodal process convened by Pope Francis. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa in the

Harnessing the concealed strength of ‘Woman’

January 30, 2024

I was wondering how to pass the time during a 14-hour drive to the south of France recently. As it turned out, a phone call to my father’s GP surgery covered a good chunk of it. The passage of French towns became punctuated with updated positions in the telephone queue. By Troyes I was caller

Chinese mainland gets bishop for first ‘new Catholic diocese’ since communist revolution

January 30, 2024

ROME – The state-sanctioned Catholic church in China has seen a new bishop’s appointment made alongside the establishment of a new diocese on the mainland for the first time since Mao’s Communist revolution. On 29 January, the Vatican confirmed that Bishop Anthony Sun Venjun, 53, had been appointed to lead the Diocese of Weifang that

Commemorating Cardinal Consalvi: 200 years of restored relations between Great Britain and the Holy See

January 30, 2024

Last week saw the bicentenary of the death of Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, who died on 24 January 1824. Brilliant, erudite and Anglophile, Consalvi was Secretary of State to Pius VII for over 20 years – there was a gap in the middle when Pius was abducted and carried off to Paris by Napoleon – and Papal Plenipotentiary at the Congress