Pope Francis was in a critical condition on Saturday morning, the Vatican said, the first time its reports have used the term ...

The initiative by Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople to establish a unified date for Easter faced its ...

Fr Georg Tserodze, a prominent Orthodox priest in Georgia, issued an open letter to the head of a government security body ...

Thus, the second forgotten truth: The official teaching that “the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ...

A senior cleric in Angola called on African states to create a common fund to cope with the impacts of US President Donald ...

Lent has a single focus and makes singular demands. Three books explore this focus and offer resources to meet the claims the ...

Chinese authorities imposed a fine on a bishop in Zhejiang province for celebrating a public Mass on 27 December with several ...

Young British Christians are less sympathetic towards Israel than older generations, according to new research.

Dr Luigi Carbone, the Pope’s personal doctor from the Vatican health service, said Francis was responding to “strengthened” drug therapy following the pneumonia diagnosis on Monday. He said the Pope ...

The Scottish Bishops' Committee for Interreligious Dialogue has commemorated the sixth anniversary of the historic signing in ...

The Vatican said Pope Francis was “stable” in hospital on Wednesday, following alarm at his diagnosis of double pneumonia the ...

Socrates’ ­frugal life, cheerful death and non-stop philosophising continue to fascinate and stimu­late scholars and ...