Port may be Europe’s most prestigious fortified wine, but the Vins Doux Naturels of south-eastern France are the oldest.

Pope Leo XIV signalled he may be open to future changes to the Vatican’s controversial agreement with China, saying that he ...

A survey from the Pew Research Center found that 84 per cent of all US Catholics have a favourable impression of Pope Leo XIV ...

A provocativetitle proposes that God is an Englishman (Swift Press, £25; Tablet price £22.50), while the interregnum at ...

The great Gothic church of Santa Croce in Florence celebrates a remarkable anniversary this year. Exactly seven centuries ago ...

Between 200,000 and 350,000 people have fled northern Gaza, leaving up to one million people in the area as the IDF conducts ...

A Spanish bishop said Pope Francis warned him that “mafioso intrigues” were involved in a dispute over a Marian shrine ...

The assassination of conservative organiser and provocateur Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Turmp, sent shockwaves through American political ...

Fr Hubert Schmitt, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Strasbourg, stepped down after a public controversy over a sexual ...

One teacher taught me a lesson more lasting than all the rest – but it was a lesson that came many years after I had left ...

I was going to go to sleep the other night when some lorries outside my bedroom window began to make thundering noises as ...

It is 6.45 on a Sunday morning in late August and I’ve arrived early for the first Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary. The church ...