Christopher Lamb

Christopher Lamb

Christopher Lamb is the Vatican correspondent for The Tablet in London.

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Bishop Stephen Wright, the new leader of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocese, accepts prayer ribbons representing victims of abuse during his installation service July 19.

English Catholic bishop's installation models synodality with abuse victims

The installation of the new bishop of Hexham and Newcastle in the northeast of England featured the testimony of an abuse victim, who said people are "exasperated" with the failures of Catholic leaders.  

Francis agrees with his critics: A pope can be wrong

The tables have turned under Pope Francis. And a new type of Catholic has formed: the conservative dissenter.  In the past, conservatives prided themselves on loyalty to the pope and being in lockstep with all papal teachings, while progressives called for limits to papal power.

Nice guy or tough guy? The two faces of Pope Francis

Francis and Benedict: two popes, two divergent approaches to Islam

In England and Wales, 16,500 weigh in on Vatican synod survey

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