Since a second wave of infections hit India in April, new cases have exceeded 300,000 per day, with the daily death toll climbing above 4,100 earlier this week.

The eight chapters of Fratelli Tutti are a statement of Pope Francis's social thought, inspired by the Admonitions of the pope’s sainted namesake.

The U.S. Catholic bishops’ pro-life chairman is expressing disappointment with President Biden as his administration reverses a Trump-era rule that restricted funding over abortion.

On the hunt for a lost Scottish holy well (after forgetting the map) can take one’s thoughts to things divine ...

A Labour MP is to introduce a Bill on assisted suicide within weeks amid claims that the Prime Minister wants a law in place by Christmas. Kim Leadbeater, the MP for Spen Valley, will table a ...

A new machine developed in Switzerland to facilitate assisted suicide and used recently by an American woman represents an “abominable” development, an English bishop has warned. The device ...

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 ...

The recent opening of a new home for the Benedictine nuns at Kylemore in the remote west of Ireland, offers a rare instance of hope for those saddened at the general trend of convent closures that ...

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 ...

Today The Times has published a letter from 48 intellectuals, artists, politicians and celebrities, both Catholic and non-Catholic, begging the Holy See to reconsider the rumoured ban on the ...

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 ...

Last summer, I moved to Salthill in Galway, on the Western coast of Ireland, and am blessed to live a minute away from the Atlantic Ocean. It has been quite the change, having lived all my life in ...