In art, Clare is more often shown carrying a monstrance or pyx, in commemoration of the occasion when she warded away the invading soldiers of Frederick II at the gates of her convent by displaying ...

During his Sunday Angelus with pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square, Pope Leo reflected on the day's Gospel passage from ...

During the Sunday Angelus, Pope Leo made a heartfelt appeal to international decision-makers to take responsibility for seeking solutions to conflicts. He expresses satisfaction over the new peace ...

At the end of a week in which the news from Gaza and the West Bank was increasingly grim, and there was the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many ...

At 11.04 yesterday morning, a bell rang for the first time in 80 years, at Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki. The church was at the epicentre of the atomic bomb blast at that time on 9 August 1945. A Mass ...

On 31st July 2025, Israeli military forces carried out a raid on the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Palestinian Seed Bank in Hebron, ...

You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.' Jesus asks us in today's reading to stand ready, be awake, be alert and attentive, sensitive to the world around us ...

The International Day of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, emphasises the rights of indigenous peoples to remain separated from the rest of the world.

On the feast day of Edith Stein, St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, and the day in which several major peace events took place in London (peace prayers with the Christian Bloc at St Anselm & St Cecilia ...

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time1. Faith and Hope.Our readings this Sunday divide neatly into two parts and two distinct ...

Thousands of pilgrims from around the world descended on the northern Italian city of Novara at the weekend, to attend the Beatification Mass for Father Antonio Rosmini Serbati.The 19th century ...

Pope John Paul II is encouraging Catholics to use the Internet as an instrument of peace and evangelisation.In a statement entitled: "The Internet: A New Forum for Proclaiming the Gospel" written for ...