Pope Leo will hold a meeting of the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conference to discuss ways to proclaim the Gospel to ...

Liam McArthur MSP had introduced the Bill in March 2024 and in May 2025 it had passed the first stage by a comfortable margin ...

Mary is the third of the five Bennet sisters created by Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice. Earnest, plain and sanctimonious, ...

The House of Lords voted on Wednesday 18 March to decriminalise abortion at any point in pregnancy and not to reinstate ...

In 1943 Ian Buruma’s father, a university student, found himself in an already battered Berlin among thousands of forced ...

In a report published earlier this month, “The Turning Tide?”, Stephen Bullivant and I examined multiple datasets, including ...

In “Five Bridges,” one of the most topical and light-hearted short stories in Colm Tóibín’s compelling third collection, a lonely Irish plumber has been living in northern California on a tourist visa ...

The Catholic Bishops of Scotland told MSPs they had “taken the correct and responsible course of action” after they voted ...

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De Santis is a celebrated jurist and an honest and dedicated politician, but he is overly cautious. His endless procrastination infuriates his loyal daughter ...

The woman in question? Mary Magdalene. Davies can’t pinpoint the start of her personal fascination. “It’s something that has grown through me over the years,” ...

The Nicaraguan authorities have banned the ordination of priests and deacons in four dioceses whose bishops are in exile.