In the dark days of apartheid, the Catholic bishops shone a light of hope in the fight against institutionalised racism.

A series in this newspaper on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land has raised the hackles of some readers who

Next week, the world’s Catholic youth will celebrate their faith in Cologne, host city of this year’s World Youth Day

South African Catholics will have been dismayed to learn on national television news that a Catholic priest has been charged

Is it possible that Pope Benedict, a Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, really takes a dim view of JK Rowling’s series of

Even with the benefit of some distance since this month’s terror outrage in London, it is difficult to come to

Pope Benedict is a man of tact and nuance. Where his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, had a tendency towards

This week, two concerned voices add to the discussion concerning the exodus of young people from the Catholic Church, one

When the cardinals prepared to choose a new pope in April, expectations among many of them were high that the