Pope Francis

a former prefect of the vatican’s doctrinal office has weighed in on the church’s theological debates regarding the reception of holy commun...

Catholic News Agency

the archbishop of merida has ruled out vatican mediation of the venezuelan crisis after president nicolas maduro made public a letter to pop...

Catholic News Agency

the big story of the past seven days ✣ jeremy hunt vows to defend persecuted christians what happened? jeremy hunt, britain’s foreign secret...

Staff writers

louisiana law restricting abortion put on pause the supreme court (pictured) has put a temporary hold on a law that would restrict abortions...

Staff writers

three years ago police in lancashire noticed that among an influx of romanians was a man called gabriel razvan ursu, a career criminal with ...

Simon Caldwell

The danger to Western Christians doesn't come from sword-and-sandals tyrants, but from an enforced code of etiquette

Matthew Schmitz

pope francis made history this week when he became the first catholic pontiff to visit the united arab emirates – which is to say, the arabi...

Sohrab Ahmari

olivier messiaen (1908-92) still divides opinion. for some listeners, even well-attuned ones, his work remains unreachable. noisy, too many ...

Francis O’Gorman

it’s only because conditions elsewhere in the muslim world are so much worse that the united arab emirates appears to be a land of “toleranc...

Fr Raymond de Souza

in granada, a city in western nicaragua, vast colonial houses with peeling pastel façades stand in the searing sun. horses and carts bounce ...

Rachel Collingwood