Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon has retired from his diocese aged 72, after Pope Francis asked for his resignation ...

Catholic commentators urged the Polish Church to set up an independent commission on historic sexual abuse by its clergy, ...

A last-minute sit-in at Clonmel Friary in Ireland failed to prevent its closure after 750 years. “There is a great sadness in ...

Two Catholics high schools in Louisiana mourned the death of former students killed in the New Year’s Eve terrorist attack in ...

A Catholic expert on social care appointed a life peer in the New Year Honours believes “we have never listened properly to ...

Last year was the deadliest on record for refugees and asylum seekers attempting to cross the English Channel and Catholic ...

Pope Francis named Cardinal Robert McElroy as the eighth Archbishop of Washington, DC, succeeding Cardinal Wilton Gregory.

Peace Sunday on 19 January will be focused on the liberating justice of God during the Jubilee Year and movement towards achieving peace, with the theme ...

Pope Francis appointed Sr Simona Brambilla MC the prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies ...

International observers recognised an elderly Belarussian Catholic priest as a political prisoner after he was sentenced to ...

Archbishop of Glasgow William Nolan said the Church has to offer hope at a time when there is war and conflict around the ...

Pope Francis encouraged Christians to be “messengers of hope” in the Jubilee Year by saying “‘yes’ to life”.