Mary Magdalen in Meditation (c.1620s pictured above), by the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, sold for £1,400,000 at ...

The decision to close the friary church in Clonmel is due to a lack of vocations and the aging profile of the friars.

Victims of the Los Angeles fires, who call what has happened to their devastated and destroyed communities “apocalyptic”, may ...

I was moved by the image of Pope Francis opening the Vatican door to mark the start of the Jubilee. As a child I was often ...

The crosses are hidden in plain sight, in doorways and on walls across Edinburgh. Joanna Moorhead takes a tour with Stephen ...

The crisis in academic theology is a problem for the Church, not just for Catholic colleges and universities. A leading ...

An urgent summons to act, to improve the social determinants of health and well-being which have got worse for millions of ...

The re-election of a dishonest and dangerous man to the presidency of the United States shows that the symbols of religion ...

I lead an all-girls, Catholic, International Baccalaureate, boarding and day school in London. In many ways it is like any ...

Catholic bishops in Cameroon sharply criticised the government of President Paul Biya, saying it had turned a beautiful ...

Metropolitan Chrysostomos, who headed of the Vilnius-Lithuania Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1990 to 2010, died ...

A bishop called for civic education to be taught in schools in South Sudan as the country prepares for elections.