Pope Leo XIV has seen and experienced the Church in more contexts than perhaps any other person currently living...’ ...

Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, ...

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I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

As a sports writer, Christopher Clarey covered more than a hundred Grand Slam tennis tournaments (and 15 Olympics) for the ...

Graduates step into a world that is watching, waiting and often weary. A world hungry for hope, for witness, for someone to ...

One of the most poignant images after Pope Francis's death was a close-up photograph of his shoes as he lay in his open coffin inside St. Peter's Basilica. Scuffed, worn and workaday, they were a ...

Chris Packham has posed as St Francis of Assisi in a portrait celebrating him as a “living saint”. The portrait of the presenter and environmental campaigner is now on show on the altar of the ...

Chris Packham with his portrait, which it is said depicts him as “a living saint”, in the Fitzrovia Chapel - Richard Ansett/Radio Times ...

Popular videos showcasing an emotional tale of the late pope's canine companion are heartwarming but entirely fake.

After fewer than 24 hours of seclusion in the Vatican, cardinals ended the 2025 papal conclave with the election of a new pontiff ... a nod to St. Francis of Assisi. In Catholic tradition ...

Leo XIV prayed at the tomb of Pope Francis on Saturday, just two days after being elected new head of the Catholic Church and hours after vowing to humbly follow in his predecessor's footsteps.