President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela said Pope Francis had done the country “justice” after its first saints were canonised on Sunday.

The private audience came days after the publication of the second annual report from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors on safeguarding across the Church. Pope Leo held his first ...

Bishop Oakley, 69, an episcopal advisor for Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England and Wales and former rector of Oscott, stepped back in mid-September. He ...

Among the other new saints were two martyrs. Peter To Rot, a lay catechist martyred in Papua New Guinea during the Japanese occupation in the Second World War, became the country’s first saint. To Rot ...

Bishop Marie Fabien Raharilamboniaina warned that after the military takeover ‘war could even break out between the military themselves’. Catholic bishops in Madagascar said they fear the country ...

The King will pray publicly alongside the Pope during a state visit to the Vatican next week. Pope Leo and the Archbishop of ...

The Vatican asked the Archbishop of Kinshasa Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu to visit a Congolese diocese where local clergy and laity have refused to ...

Ellen Teague is a London-based freelance Catholic journalist who writes and campaigns on Justice, Peace and Ecology issues. She has contributed to The Tablet, particularly Church in the World, for two ...

The guilt of the late Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz is not in doubt, Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius said, after local politicians questioned Church ...

The heat in the sprawling megacity of Metro Manila hits you like a wall the moment you step outside – a thick, humid blanket.

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