Europe

the middle east: a political  history from 395 to the present jean-pierre filiu polity, £30, 356 pages this is a work of detailed knowl...

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali

yaoundè, cameroon - a leading nigerian prelate has said that africans see catholicism in the west as a “church in decline” while in africa c...

Ngala Killian Chimtom

rome – a celebrated prelate who helped write the catechism of the catholic church, and who’s widely recognised as being among the church’s t...

Elise Allen

rome – as the vatican’s “trial of the century” lumbers towards its expected conclusion before the end of the year, it’s becoming increasingl...

Crux Staff

following the polish elections last week, the assumption is that over the next few weeks a new government will form as a result of a coaliti...

Olenka Hamilton

an english bishop has invited catholics to propose marriage as a path to holiness to new generations in the face of a “cataclysmic” national...

Simon Caldwell

rome – pope francis has pointed to saint thérèse of lisieux as an authority on the so-called “hierarchy of truths” in a new document. to thi...

Elise Allen

the esoteric fifteenth century philosopher pico dell miranda, was so confident as a polymath that he wrote a treatise called de omni re scib...

Horace Gates

minus the hebrew and arabic street signs and the garish posters of local politicians, the sunny tree-lined streets of sderot could almost be...

Georgia L. Gilholy

rome – lawyers for one of the defendants in the vatican’s “trial of the century” for financial crimes not only insisted that their client is...

Elise Allen