Vincent Nichols, 79, the Archbishop of Westminster since 2009 and a cardinal since 2014, has led the Church in England and ...

There has been relatively little speculation about papabile from the Middle East, where the Gospel was first proclaimed and ...

Suspect is in all sorts of ways an admirable endeavour. The research is vast, the production values impressive, actors are ...

In the summer of 1959, at a pass in the Alpine foothills of northern Italy, the Bishop of Verona unveiled a memorial to two ...

It was, for much of the media, the image from the funeral of Pope Francis: US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President ...

The National Gallery has acquired an early 16th-century Northern Renaissance altarpiece with the Virgin and Child at its ...

The Vatican Observatory has served 11 popes since Leo XIII founded us in 1891. But Pope Francis, a fellow Jesuit, has had a ...

Many people would question the need for a pope at all – if by “need” is meant the need for a nanny who tells us what our own hearts can teach us: that is, ...

The Chinese authorities unilaterally “elected” two Catholic bishops in the week after Pope Francis’ death, including one to a ...

Bishop Brendan Comiskey, who resigned as leader of the Diocese of Ferns in April 2002 over his mishandling of clerical sexual ...

Instead, Oldman is now tackling another of drama’s lonely, shambolic, malodorous old men in Samuel Beckett’s 1958 monologue ...

Before Pope Francis was elected in 2013, a blog for Businessweek compared the conclave to a multi-national company’s search ...