Entry was permitted for private prayer, but not as a “community holding a public prayer service”. This occurred in Assisi on 6 September, when the pilgrimage of the Italian community of the Society of Saint Pius X was prevented from entering the Basilica of Saint Francis. The schismatics’ response: “Why not us, but the pagans are allowed?”

The surreal story of Monsignor Guido Gallese, who, following a well-orchestrated media campaign featuring laughable accusations (he owns a Tesla and goes kitesurfing), is leaving the diocese. And behind-the-scenes reports in the newspapers reveal that there is only one reason: the priests didn’t like him.

Leo XIV brings the era of Vatican austerity to an end: no more pay cuts. The circumstances that led to Bergoglio’s decision “can be overcome”, says the Pope 

On his 71st birthday, the Pontiff announced the construction of a new building and revoked Pope Francis’s 2021 ‘Motu proprio’, which, due to the pandemic emergency, had reduced the salaries of cardinals, heads and secretaries of the dicasteries, and clerics or members of religious orders

From Adrian VI, elected in absentia and the last non-Italian pope until Karol Wojtyla, to the 12-day reign of Urban VII, the shortest papacy in history

Essayist Alexander Grau: “Saying that those who vote for Alternative für Deutschland are not Christian will not win back those who have chosen the far right”. The risks and prospects following the triumph in Saxony-Anhalt

One blow after another for Meloni, from the justice system to immigration. As for the former general’s programme, however, there has been silence. Just a few brief warnings and clarifications

The appeals from various churches, from the Catholic to the Evangelical, to counter Alternative für Deutschland, have come to nothing. The risk of political ‘retaliation’ is extremely high

Kremlin drones flying over children returning to school: the fear and resilience of a people. “Europe does not understand that Ukraine is defending the peaceful lives of Westerners,” says Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk