I had been hoping that one of the consequences of the Synod and parish input into it would have altered the way the clergy ...

A firm rejection of far-right ideology by Germany’s bishops has led to populists being expelled from Church committees.

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith received five new abuse complaints against the former Jesuit Fr Marko Rupnik.

A kitchen table in Cumbria might seem like an unlikely place to start a movement, but we know there is sound precedent for ...

A new report has found that most homeless agencies in Ireland believe they are coming into contact with people who have been ...

One of the leading thinkers in the Irish Church welcomes the Pope’s ‘change of culture’ but warns that it will peter out ...

He was a six-year-old Jewish boy who was seized by papal soldiers and taken to be raised Catholic. Isabelle Grey asks the ...

When Pope Francis visits Venice on Sunday 28 April, he will encounter a city of wit, ingenuity and excess, of rebirth, ...

TRAVELLING through provincial France outside the summer tourist season can be a depressing experience. The evidence of ...

Pope Francis again expressed his “concern and sorrow” over conflict in the Middle East in his Angelus address last Sunday.

Christians in west Africa were the victims of a new wave of suspected Islamist attacks in the weeks after Easter.

The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales have spoken out for the first time against allowing medical intervention to change ...