Catholic Church

Cardinal Nichols thanks Pope Francis for 'steadfast' defence of Church teaching

Cardinal Vincent Nichols has congratulated Francis on the fourth anniversary of his election

Bishops criticise 'intolerant' MP who seeks end to Catholic education

Tommy Sheppard, MP for Edinburgh East, said he wanted to introduce secularism 'bit by bit'

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The heroism and romance of persecuted Catholics

At times, Roy Hattersley’s account may make readers ashamed to be English

This Lent, rediscover Oxford’s forgotten poet

William Herebert was one of the first people to turn Latin hymns into English poetry

Population alarmism stinks

A lot of lessons can be learnt about population control from horse manure

Fr Raymond de Souza

The end of the ‘Hitler’s Pope’ myth

For 50 years, the truth about Pius XII’s battle against Nazism has been suppressed. But new evidence makes his heroism undeniable

Fr Leo Chamberlain OSB

The big story of the past seven days

✣  abuse survivor quits vatican commission what happened? the last remaining abuse survivor on the vatican’s commission for the protect...

BBC attacked over coverage of MP’s ashes

the bbc has provoked a backlash by asking whether it was “appropriate” for an mp to wear her ashes at a house of commons select committee he...