Popes, of course, can’t do much. That’s not how Catholicism works. A new pope is in a similar position to a new director of ...

Over the course of the assisted dying debate in Parliament, there has been one thing too sensitive to mention. It was not the ...

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

Ten cardinals from the United States will process into the Sistine Chapel on 7 May. While it is highly unlikely one of them ...

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 ...

The long-standing convention that Jews of the diaspora should not publicly criticise Israel has been breached by 36 members ...

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

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

The eve of a papal conclave evokes the image of a famine for activists and human rights defenders, like me. Nobody occupies ...

All 135 listed cardinal electors will be eligible to vote in the conclave next week, after the Congregation of Cardinals ...

The Archdiocese of Liverpool has announced the development of a new Welcome Centre at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ ...

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, the Bishop of Kalookan, asked Filipinos to stop campaigning for specific cardinals in the ...