While firmly part of Italy for more than a century, influences from that rich and complicated past can be seen in the ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and ...

In the small hall of the Rustaveli Theater, the air was heavy not with theatrical drama, but with something subtler, ...

The media’s praise of Pope Francis aims to place a last coat of “democratic” and “modern” varnish on the Catholic Church as ...

[Cf. Council of Florence (1439): DS 1304; Council of Trent (1563): DS 1820; (1547): 1580; see also Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1000.] The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on ...

In her 2012 book, Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church, Keenan theorised that some priests who aspired to priestly ...

The number of appeals to the SEND tribunal service has been rising both locally and nationally, with just 12 of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's decisions appealed back in 2018/19. Disagreement with ...

For 40 years, the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data - Convention 108 – has been the only international legally binding ...

The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.