The UK’s political parties are out of step with the British public when it comes to their increasingly hostile treatment of candidates who hold religious beliefs, according to a recent poll. Set ...

Big Trouble in Little Knoxville: Misconduct cases bring systemic, cultural weaknesses into sharp focus ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York will offer a prayer at the opening of the Republican National Convention next week, the cardinal announced on Tuesday. “As a priest, one of my most sacred ...

Pope Francis has repeated his controversial teaching that all religions are divinely inspired by God. In a message to an interreligious gathering in Paris for peace, Pope Francis wrote that the ...

While the fallout from the strange scenes of the Olympics' opening ceremony continues to play out – the BBC’s latest Moral Maze focused on the question of whether anything is sacred any longer ...

The secrecy of the Church’s judicial processes hurts the innocent, while the opacity of her general practices tends to protect evildoers. Together, the Church’s secrecy and opacity undermine ...

Pope Francis has ordered Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict XVI’s long-serving private secretary, to leave the Vatican by 1 July, a German n ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle - fast-emerging as a frontrunner to succeed Pope Francis, as rumours grow about a looming papal resignation ...

Measures take effect Nov 5, and will stay in place for a period of four weeks. The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales question the need to restrict public worship, and demand to see evidence in ...

Navigating the old city of Jerusalem is usually a challenge. The narrow, labyrinthine streets are typically crowded with pilgrims and tourists mingling with local Jews, Arabs and Christians. Since ...

Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. – Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress ...

Pope Francis may try to influence the electorate in the conclave, but no one can predict who will succeed him It is a paradox of papal history that each pope can create as many cardinals as he ...