Northampton’s Tom Wood will captain a youthful England squad featuring 11 uncapped players for the fixture against the Barbarians and the summe(...)

Pope Francis said today that clergy who were “careerists” or “social climbers” were doing serious damage to the Catholic Church, his latest ut(...)

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Pope Francis rounded off an intense week of Easter celebrations when bestowing his first Urbi et Orbi (...)

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When Belfast man Kieran Rooney heard on the radio that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio had been elected Pope, he assumed it was a joke. It was only wh(...)

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For a Catholic leadership reeling from paedophile and financial scandals, the elevation of Buenos Aires cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to the papacy (...)

impossible to avoid in Argentina. The news is on television and hastily made T-shirts, and it has even replaced the numbers on the huge (...)