Pope Francis has appointed Bishop John Sherrington as Archbishop of Liverpool. Bishop Sherrington, an auxiliary in ...

The scalp of St Teresa of Ávila has retained strands of brown hair, according to anthropologists analysing relics of the ...

Caritas organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo expanded their operations in response to the crisis in the east of ...

The French Church’s fund to compensate sexual abuse of minors has recognised 1,235 cases since its founding in 2022 and paid 765 of them so far with sums of ...

I speak to Jonathan Sumption in the kind of the room I would like to be resurrected in. We’re in the small, elegant study on ...

A recent YouGov poll in Germany found that while 79 per cent of the population thought Vladimir Putin was “very” or “quite” ...

The Israeli government’s plan to expand its military offensive in Gaza met condemnation from Church agencies in the Holy Land ...

The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in AmericaJAMES M. O’TOOLE(HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 336 PP, £29.95)Tablet bookshop ...

The Marian shrine at Lourdes now has more young people wanting to push wheelchairs around than frail pilgrims to sit in them.

How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth CenturyOWEN HATHERLEY(ALLEN LANE, 608 PP, £35)tablet bookshop ...

What do you do if you’re a ­musical parent with 14 children? The answer – if you’re the Bevans, or have ever seen The Sound ...

Retrograde feels consciously indebted to David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow (1988), a ­previous three-hander set in a Hollywood ...