Pope Francis has appointed Bishop John Sherrington as Archbishop of Liverpool. Bishop Sherrington, an auxiliary in Westminster since 2011, will be the tenth Archbishop of Liverpool, succeeding ...

The scalp of St Teresa of Ávila has retained strands of brown hair, according to anthropologists analysing relics of the ...

Caritas organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo expanded their operations in response to the crisis in the east of ...

A recent YouGov poll in Germany found that while 79 per cent of the population thought Vladimir Putin was “very” or “quite” ...

The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in AmericaJAMES M. O’TOOLE(HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 336 PP, £29.95)Tablet bookshop ...

The Marian shrine at Lourdes now has more young people wanting to push wheelchairs around than frail pilgrims to sit in them.

The Israeli government’s plan to expand its military offensive in Gaza met condemnation from Church agencies in the Holy Land ...

A Story ofLove and Connection in 10 SongsJOHN HARRIS(JOHN MURRAY, 272 PP, £16.99)Tablet bookshop price £15.29 • tel 020 7799 ...

A glimpse into the darkest corners of Hugo’s mind through his fantastical ink landscapes, caricatures and bulging sketchbooks is now possible thanks to “Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo ...

Retrograde feels consciously indebted to David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow (1988), a ­previous three-hander set in a Hollywood ...

It has long been the lot of unmarried daughters and gay sons, especially in Catholic Ireland, to care for ageing parents.

A Filipino bishop warned migrant workers against halting their remittances to the Philippines as a form of protest at the Marcos government’s decision to ...