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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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