The Egyptian government denied that a controversial court ruling, declaring the land around the historic St Catherine’s ...

A Portuguese bishop working for the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences faces canonical investigation at the Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV spoke to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, asking him to make “a gesture that would favour peace”.

A Catholic parish in western Russia was forced to remove an icon of a martyr and a memorial plaque to a bishop both of whom ...

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Muriel Spark, then a 36-year-old divorcee recovering from a mental breakdown, was received into the Roman Catholic Church at ...

I have never chosen anything in my life.” At 71, conductor Masaaki Suzuki is a masterclass in self-deprecating politeness.

Vesta, of all the asteroids, is special. It is both big enough to have been melted and separated into a crust of basalt, a ...

The first conclave to elect a North American pope was also the first to choose a native English speaker since the ...

Pope Leo faces a host of issues: the legacy of his predecessor, the AI revolution, the rise of both secularism and ...

It should not come as a surprise that a decade or more in the cloister leaves the monk or nun a changed human being. This is ...

And if in a democracy those forces go forth with a licence to kill, does the bloodstain spread to the whole population? To ...