Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

To have such a Mass celebrated in the mother church of England was ‘very impressive, very moving. We must pray a lot for the ...

There’s something about these lazy, hazy days of summer that makes us want to get lost in a book. A classic “beach read” ...

friends gathered more than 75 years ago ...

Education to an ordinary person means no more than the process of passing across and imbibing or learning the practices, ways ...

July 6th has been a date packed with remarkable events across centuries, continents, and disciplines.One of the most ...

On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell by scientists at the Roslin Institute at ...

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and ...

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated  on July 16, was first instituted in the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a hundred ...

The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for ...

Gloria Theresa Jones needed to join in the rosary with her friends' family before they could watch television in the 1950s.