populism

Salvini, with a rosary at a rally

Analysis: Salvini and the Italian Church: who’s using who?

Pope prays for victims of Hanau attack

Pope in “mourning”, “deeply affected” by “terrible act of violence” in Hanau

Shootings in Hanau, Germany

Updated: Hanau terrorist attack: Christians from Germany, beyond ask: “Why such evil, inexcusable violence?”

In Dresden, Churches stand up to far-right

Churches stand up to far-right in Dresden: “We need peacemakers, not pyromaniacs”

An AfD supporter in Berlin

Münster diocese bans far-right AfD members from Church leadership roles

Vatican cardinal Pietro Parolin responded to the Rome national conservatism conference in an event with Sant'Egidio

Vatican responds to Rome national conservatism conference: “Nationalisms are childish reactions to the great global world”

Populists play off John Paul II against Francis, Europe

In Rome conference, populists, conservatives play off John Paul II against Francis, Europe

Brexit has arrived

Updated: European Bishops: “Brexit will not succeed in shattering EU-UK fraternal relations”

Hungarian Bishops defend 'frightening white nationalist' PM Viktor Orbán

Hungarian Bishops bash Budapest district mayor for suggesting far-right PM Orbán a “frightening… white nationalist”

French model for ultra-Catholics, far-right politician Marion Maréchal

Bannon’s “gladiator school” idea for ultra-Catholics infects France

Far-right Hungarian politician Péter Jakab

Far-right Hungarian Jobbik party elects anti-Semitic Jewish Catholic as president

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

Hungarian Catholics denounce country’s collapse into “mafia State of hatred”, PM Orbán’s descent into “religious insanity”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

Priest-journalist denounces Hungary PM Orbán’s “propagandist manipulation” of persecuted Christians

Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart Gebhard Fürst (c), surrounded by fellow German bishops

German bishop says ‘synodal path’ reform process “only chance” for Church, adds women deacons “possible”

Session in the Spanish Congress

Spanish Catholic hierarchy swallows bitter pill of left-wing Government… while laypeople welcome it

Venice's St. Mark's Square

Venice Patriarch condemns anti-Semitic, Mussolini-inspired attack on left-wing politician

Auschwitz re-enactment at a Polish primary school

Priests ‘bless’ Polish primary school Auschwitz re-enactment

Far-right Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán

Catholic, other Churches turn blind eye to Christian-nativist populist slide in Hungary

Polish priest and media and business tycoon Tadeusz Rydzyk

Tens of thousands of Poles petition Pope to silence “hateful voice” of priest media tycoon

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin

Dublin archbishop decries rise in Ireland of groups “clearly populist and racist”

'Sardines' protest in Rome

What does the Vatican think of the anti-Salvini ‘Sardines’?

German Church leaders Thomas Sternberg (l) and Cardinal Reinhard Marx

German Church leaders condemn far-right: “Nationalism and Catholicism are mutually exclusive”

Trisulti Charterhouse

Updated: Ultra-Catholic Bannon group ordered to vacate Italian monastery under threat of police escort… but granted last-minute reprieve

Far-right Italian politician Matteo Salvini (l) and Vatican Secretary of State cardinal Pietro Parolin

Vatican Secretary of State backs grassroots anti-Salvini movement

Pope Francis meets with Jesuits in Thailand

Pope “shocked” by anti-immigration narratives in Europe, warns “populism is gaining strength”

Polish Bishops turn blind eye to far-right march for country’s “Catholic identity”

Italian cardinal Camillo Ruini with Pope Benedict XVI

Italian cardinal cosies up to Salvini in thinly-veiled challenge to Pope

The thirteenth-century Trisulti Charterhouse in Italy

Italian bishop breathes “sigh of relief” after closure of Bannon far-right, ultra-Catholic “gladiator school”

Bishops of COMECE at their Autumn Assembly in Brussels

Bishops urge EU to take “ambitious steps” on development, climate, human rights

German Bishops' Conference president Cardinal Reinhard Marx

Marx insists greater role for women in Church “necessary and overdue”