“I humbly beg the Holy Father to order the withdrawal of the recent norms issued by the secretariat of state,” Cardinal Sarah wrote in an essay published Monday on the blog of Vatican journalist Sandro Magister.

According to media reports, Bishop Claudio Maniago of Castellaneta, president of the liturgy commission of the Italian bishops’ conference, began a visitation to the Vatican’s liturgy office March 15.

Having mentioned an interview between the late Sir Jonathan Miller and Norman Lebrecht in a recent blog on Advent, I am now thinking of another cultural giant who has recently died: Clive James. A friend has drawn my attention to an interview first broadcast in 2001 between James and the novelist Piers Paul Read in

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

One of the Vatican's most senior clerics says we must fight against 'the dictatorship of noise'

The memorial is compulsory at every Ordinary Form Mass, the cardinal said