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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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