Dame Justine Thornton, a High Court judge and the wife of Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, was among a number of residents to ...

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to ...

The rule book is the apostolic constitution, "Universi Dominici Gregis" ("Shepherd of the Lord's Whole Flock"), which was ...

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch has joined a neighbourhood ... spearheading the Government's efforts to overhaul planning rules to build 300,000 new homes a year. And the Labour Party said ...

“There are very few rules for the man at the top, so they're allowed to choose what they want,” Joshua McManaway, who teaches ...

His rule was filled with violence and debauchery, leading to an uprising in Rome. By early 1045, Benedict was forced to flee, and Bishop John of Sabina was elected pope in his place. Benedict's ...

The cardinals at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City vow to follow the rules of the conclave, the process by which the next ...

or as his predecessor Benedict XVI did with the founder of the Benedictine order and initiator of monastic living rules, Saint Benedict. The motivation is sometimes more prosaic; for example ...

When a new pope is elected, one of his first decisions is to choose a regnal name — a symbolic gesture that reveals spiritual ...