The National Gallery has acquired an early 16th-century Northern Renaissance altarpiece with the Virgin and Child at its ...

Bishop Brendan Comiskey, who resigned as leader of the Diocese of Ferns in April 2002 over his mishandling of clerical sexual ...

The funeral has taken place of Bishop Brendan Comiskey, who resigned as leader of the Diocese of Ferns in April 2002 over his ...

The Chinese authorities unilaterally “elected” two Catholic bishops in the week after Pope Francis’ death, including one to a ...

When Pope Francis made his visit to the “most peripheral of peripheries” in Oceania last year, he was hosted in Papua New ...

During the live broadcast of Pope Francis’ funeral, a lone cardinal in white vestments among the red brigade accompanying the ...

In the summer of 1959, at a pass in the Alpine foothills of northern Italy, the Bishop of Verona unveiled a memorial to two ...

Instead, Oldman is now tackling another of drama’s lonely, shambolic, malodorous old men in Samuel Beckett’s 1958 monologue ...

Students and staff of St Michael and St Martin Catholic Primary School in Hounslow hosted an exhibition on Blessed Carlo Acutis in anticipation of his ...

Ten cardinals from the United States will process into the Sistine Chapel on 7 May. While it is highly unlikely one of them ...

The Vatican Observatory has served 11 popes since Leo XIII founded us in 1891. But Pope Francis, a fellow Jesuit, has had a ...

Opera in the UK is in crisis. The English National Opera is being driven out of London, heading to Manchester and a ...