Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass Saturday on the island of Lampedusa, warning that migrants who have died crossing the Mediterranean are “victims both of decisions that were made and of decisions that ...

Cafod invited representatives of their partner organisations in Peru, Bolivia and Colombia to meet parliamentarians in Westminster on 30 June, to tell them ...

Funding for “development, diplomacy, peacebuilding, conflict and atrocity prevention” has been hit by increases in defence spending, a coalition of ...

A Nigerian bishop backed campaigns for compensation for slavery but warned they must not distract from the deeper moral and spiritual imperative of restoring ...

Pope Leo XIV appointed Fr Stephen Wang as the new Bishop of Arundel & Brighton today. Fr Wang was born in London in 1966 and grew up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. He started his priestly formation ...

Reopened after a three-year refurbishment, St John’s Cathedral returns to its high Victorian splendour after the re-ordering of the 1970s and 1980s. Salford in Greater Manchester has become a byword ...

The text echoes hip-hop and maximises the word games in the play, including Cyrano and Roxane conducting conversations in words beginning with a single letter. THE ROYAL Shakespeare Company has ...

In America the anniversary has roused mixed feelings, not least because President Donald Trump has subsumed it into his own personality cult. His presidency raises serious questions about the ...

Our reviewers and contributors recommend some of the very best in holiday reading, ranging across fiction, memoir, religion, history, biography, letters, philosophy, nature, art history, cookery and ...

WHEN FRIDA Kahlo died in 1954 – in the same house in which she was born, the Casa Azul in Coyacán, Mexico City – she was best-known as the wife of her country’s most famous artist, the muralist Diego ...