The priests of the only entirely Christian town in the West Bank issued a joint appeal for an end to “the ongoing and grave ...

A Catholic priest challenged Cameroon’s long-serving president not to seek re-election when the nation goes to the polls in ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick to the Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The 47th ...

The Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor, has paid tribute to St Oliver Plunkett saying his example of ...

We call it “the pen”, the “fat jab”, or, for many, the “miracle”. The relatively new weight-loss drugs are a big talking ...

And so to midsummer, official season of dreams, drought declar­ations and, most omi­n­ously, Yellow Book open gardens. Right ...

When the children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza reported to government this week that large numbers of children are ...

Some of the approaches to doors are lovely – the gate, if there is one, opens easily, the path to the door is not overgrown ...

The pandemic was a watershed in the arts: the BC/AD of funding, programming, planning – of survival, even. The BBC Proms are ...

There’s been a lot of talk about tears this week, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer was caught on camera welling up during ...

We have produced a society and a culture in which it is impossible to say “I am unhappy”. Instead, we say we have “mental ...

Theresa”, a short story by Mary Beckett, is one of the most startling things in Irish literature. Not because of any formal or linguistic daring (Beckett’s ...