The Pope in August ordered a revision of paragraph 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, calling the death penalty “inadmissible” and urging its elimination. The Pope called for the ...

Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham said: “Another thing that is at the heart of the beatification is a recognition of Cardinal Newman’s intercessory powers. We can speak about prayer to ...

The hospitals provide “invaluable medical care for the most vulnerable populations, including Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank,” said a statement from Catholic ...

St Therese parish in Alhambra does not have a large parking lot; instead, Mass is celebrated in an outdoor space in between school and church buildings, recently covered with a large sunshade ...

Churches are full of static Catholics SIR – Concerning the reported falling attendances in Church, I wonder if this may be a problem to do with training. Training may happen initially, but after ...

Here she also alludes to her own aristocratic Prussian ancestry and its patriotic, militaristic esprit de corps in a discreet reference to the Third Reich, when a character comments, “What my ...

The Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, took a strong stance against the push for same-sex marriage in his native Argentina, which nevertheless concluded with the approval ...

Cryptic answers to No 0613Across: 5 Ishmaelites, 8 Mahanaim, 9 Keys, 10 Ephesus, 12 Assir, 14 Bight, 16 Cyclone, 19 Zion, 20 Dartmoor, 22 Phoenicians. Down: 1 Ziba, 2 ...