Pope Francis has faced strong and unusual criticism from academics, students, royalty and government during his visit to ...

As Israel has struck hundreds of Hezbollah targets across Lebanon in the past few days, locals fear Beirut Airport might be on the target list. At the same time, the Lebanese government might close ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, has said that Pope Francis wants Europe to rediscover its founding ...

Pope Francis called for a new “missionary proclamation” of the gospel after landing in Luxembourg yesterday, the first stop ...

A Catholic priest has described witnessing some of the pager explosions that rocked Lebanon. Father Marwan Ghanem, the head ...

The government announced last week that buffer zones will be introduced in England and Wales from 31 October, making it ...

As the far-right AfD party surges in voter support, the German Catholic Church has stepped up its campaign against ...

The Catholic bishops of Ohio have called for Haitian migrants to “be afforded the respect and dignity that are theirs by ...

Catholics have lost trust in church leaders because of failures in the way the sexual abuse crisis was handled. This may not ...

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