Popes, of course, can’t do much. That’s not how Catholicism works. A new pope is in a similar position to a new director of ...

Many people would question the need for a pope at all – if by “need” is meant the need for a nanny who tells us what our own ...

Over the course of the assisted dying debate in Parliament, there has been one thing too sensitive to mention. It was not 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 ...

The long-standing convention that Jews of the diaspora should not publicly criticise Israel has been breached by 36 members ...

Before Pope Francis was elected in 2013, a blog for Businessweek compared the conclave to a multi-national company’s search ...

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

It was, for much of the media, the image from the funeral of Pope Francis: US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President ...

There has been relatively little speculation about papabile from the Middle East, where the Gospel was first proclaimed and ...

The eve of a papal conclave evokes the image of a famine for activists and human rights defenders, like me. Nobody occupies ...

All 135 listed cardinal electors will be eligible to vote in the conclave next week, after the Congregation of Cardinals ...

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, the Bishop of Kalookan, asked Filipinos to stop campaigning for specific cardinals in the ...