Charles Dickens had an idea for a fiction set at Christmas that would be sold in the run-up to that ­festival. Those familiar ...

Poland’s bishops requested urgent talks with Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s liberal government, after negotiators failed to ...

A half-French bishop in the Westminster diocese said he felt “touched” to attend the re-opening and first Mass of the ...

I do not have a memory of Caldey that does not include abuse,’ one of the victims told a review released this week that has ...

Children were repeatedly abused by a monk belonging to the Cistercian community at Caldey Abbey, south Wales over many years, ...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging a Tennessee law that bans puberty blockers and other irreversible medical treatments for ...

A Catholic school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne has been named Primary School of the Year in the Northeast 2025 by The Sunday Times ...

Catholic bishops in Belarus have ordered clergy to limit their media appearances, as an elderly priest faced a 15-year jail ...

The contrast in the opening verses of today’s gospel between, on the one hand, a rollcall of power and status – Emperor, ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law in South Korea on 3 December met sharp criticism from the ...

The Archbishop of Liverpool Malcolm McMahon formally recognised the cure of John Traynor during the archdiocese’s first ...

In the wake of the general election in Ireland, the Irish bishops have said a new government should be formed “as quickly as ...