History
Roy Hattersley: ‘The Church’s real heroes are the little people’
The former deputy Labour leader, a ‘hardened atheist’, was so intrigued by British Catholics he wrote a 600-page history of them
The end of the ‘Hitler’s Pope’ myth
For 50 years, the truth about Pius XII’s battle against Nazism has been suppressed. But new evidence makes his heroism undeniable
The lowbrow strategy that won the Reformation
Jack Scarisbrick says that Eamon Duffy’s new study of the period is a must-read
Pope Francis to make historic visit to Anglican church in Rome
The church of All Saints will be twinned with the Catholic parish of Ognissanti, home to the titular church of Cardinal Walter Kasper, to make the occasion
Vatican Museums open doors wider with revamped website
A YouTube channel featuring ‘virtual tours’ has also been launched
Boston Archdiocese creates online database to help Catholics trace family history
Thousands of records dating back to 1789 will be available to view online
A glimpse inside Christ’s burial place
For the first time in almost 2,000 years, scientists have examined Jesus’s tomb; what they have found underlines the truth of the Gospels
Colombian government and Farc to sign peace deal despite objections from former president
The decision to sign the amended peace accord was made during a meeting at a heavily guarded Catholic retreat in Bogota
St Thomas More’s hair shirt now enshrined for public veneration
The shirt worn by the saint as he contemplated a martyr’s death in the Tower of London has been encased above an altar in Buckfast Abbey
What the Catholic Church can teach Islam about responding to atheists
Unlike the lynch mobs of Bangladesh, the Church has nothing to fear from modern secularism
