THE number of foreign voters in Scotland has doubled in a decade — with a record one in 20 now non-UK citizens. Some 195,400 people from overseas have registered to cast their ballot compared to ...

A change in popes is a complicated process. Here are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of ...

Francis did away with that sort of viewing. Instead, a procession brought his coffin on Wednesday directly to St. Peter’s ...

If a two-thirds majority has been reached, the master of liturgical ceremonies enters the Sistine Chapel. After each round of ...

The Johnstown Coolgreany Gymkhana will take place this year on Monday 2nd June (bank holiday) in Merrigans field in ...

The Catholic Church is grieving throughout the world, including in Maryland, after the death of Pope Francis, who died Monday ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88 from a stroke and irreversible heart failure, and was in a coma before his death early on Monday morning. The Pope had already planned a low-key ...

The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing ...