Focus

• Cardinal Bertone gives account of 2013 conclave

  Mar 21, 2014

  Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the former Vatican Secretary of State, offered his perspective on the conclave that elected Pope Francis, in a candid interview with La Stampa.

  

• Religious asked to live poverty, reject capitalism

  Mar 21, 2014

  The Vatican office responsible for the approximately 900,000 priests and brothers and sisters in religious orders around the world called on them this weekend to re-evaluate their holdings of wealth and to issue critiques of the global market capitalist economy, calling it unjust to the world's neediest.

  

• Analysis of Pope Francis’ first year: the view from the Vatican Reform, Rebuild and Renew

  Mar 14, 2014

  When Jorge Mario Bergoglio appeared in the white papal cassock on the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica on 13 March 2013, few people – if anyone – could have predicted how the then 76-year-old Jesuit would dramatically re-energise the Catholic Church over the next 12 months.

  

• The journey of our brothers and sisters

  Mar 14, 2014

  Depending on where you come from and your circumstances,when you hear the word “journey,” images of the open road and beautiful landscapes come to mind.

  

• Why Praise and Worship music is not suitable for liturgy

  Mar 14, 2014

  Why Praise and Worship music is not suitable for liturgy