From church services over WhatsApp to eating with family and listening to chilled music over Instagram, South Africa is going to have a very different long weekend, grounded in…
Pope Francis this week exhorted the political leaders of Mauritius, known as a tax haven and enclave for shell companies, to promote policies that reduce income inequality and to…
Pell had been trying to overturn the verdicts and six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s
The former Vatican number three, is appealing against his conviction on five counts of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s
The idea is that the 114 heads of bishops’ conferences will return home with clear ideas on how to spot and deal with abuse
The Vatican Museums application hopes to create a community of philanthropic supporters through its crowdfunding venture.
A document from the Vatican has called on Catholics to be more accepting and valuing of same-sex couples – but maintain church doctrine on family.
The Vatican was forced into a climbdown after remarks by a senior cardinal linking homosexuality with paedophilia caused an international outcry.
He’s a man of temperate habits with a love of cats and classical music. Yet his image is that of God’s rottweiler. John Hooper profiles the pope.
The Vatican on Tuesday issued a statement rebutting reports that the resignation an Italian bishops’ newspaper editor had to do with the Holy See.
Tens of thousands of disaffected Anglicans could become Catholics following this week’s decree by Pope Benedict to poach whole Protestant communities.
