The right to free speech is a hot topic. The public debate surrounding it has thrown up some unlikely figures of controversy.

It's the mid-1980s, and my mother is obsessed with the American cookery writer and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart’s first book ...

Pope Leo asked Catholics to remember Myanmar in their prayers for peace, urging the international community to act to end ...

It is “not appropriate” to refer to the Virgin Mary as “Co-redemptrix” because it obscures Christ’s exclusive role in the ...

St Peter's Basilica lacks the monastic restraint of the church where I usually worship. Emphasis rather than suggestion is ...

Brazilian Church organisations criticised the huge police operation carried out in Rio de Janeiro on 28 October which ...

Vatican officials do not understand the situation of Christians and must learn to “work with the local churches, not above”, ...

Church leaders welcomed the announcement from US President Donald Trump that he would reprove Nigeria for religious freedom ...

Pope Leo appealed for a ceasefire and humanitarian access in the Sudanese state of North Darfur after the fall of its capital ...

Two orders of female religious inspired by a 16th century Englishwoman once dubbed a heretic have merged into one ...

The chalices, ciboria, monstrances and other plate belonged to two former Jesuit schools in Derbyshire that went into ...

Two Catholic women’s sporting achievements won acclaim across India last week. While one was instrumental in helping India lift its maiden ICC Women’s World ...