A company is seeking to bring The Lost Sheep, a tale of adultery and redemption, to London for the first time

Reflecting on the horrors of hell can help us to avoid ending up there

The Pope last presided over a wedding two years ago

The author of a new study of Communist persecution tells me why these stories must be kept alive

The Seventeenth Sunday of the Year: Gen 18:20-32; Col 2:12-14; Lk 11:1-13 (year c)

Review: Athelstan by Tom Holland

Born to Be Blue stays true to its subject – a musician who conjured great beauty no matter how lost he was

The rift, which began with the joint canonisation of John Paul II and John XXIII, is rarely spoken about in public

You might think that progressives would be rejoicing under the current pontificate. Instead, they are fretting about the future

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In the three months since its publication, the Pope’s exhortation Amoris Laetitia has been described as brilliant, erroneous, confusing, groundbreaking and unremarkable. It has opened up divisions – but what is at the heart of the divisions may be something deeper than the usual to-and-fro of Church politics. Last week, a group of Catholic theologians

Kraków When Pope Francis arrives here next week for World Youth Day, will he come as his predecessors did – Benedict XVI to honour John Paul II, and John Paul in turn to honour Paul VI? If he does not do so, he will further widen the rift with Catholics who are devoted to the