The Chinese authorities unilaterally “elected” two Catholic bishops in the week after Pope Francis’ death, including one to a ...

Ten cardinals from the United States will process into the Sistine Chapel on 7 May. While it is highly unlikely one of them ...

During the live broadcast of Pope Francis’ funeral, a lone cardinal in white vestments among the red brigade accompanying the ...

The Vatican Observatory has served 11 popes since Leo XIII founded us in 1891. But Pope Francis, a fellow Jesuit, has had a ...

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Opera in the UK is in crisis. The English National Opera is being driven out of London, heading to Manchester and a ...

There has been relatively little speculation about papabile from the Middle East, where the Gospel was first proclaimed and ...

In the summer of 1959, at a pass in the Alpine foothills of northern Italy, the Bishop of Verona unveiled a memorial to two ...

Many people would question the need for a pope at all – if by “need” is meant the need for a nanny who tells us what our own ...

Over the course of the assisted dying debate in Parliament, there has been one thing too sensitive to mention. It was not the ...

It was, for much of the media, the image from the funeral of Pope Francis: US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President ...