Demonstrators shout anti-government slogans behind a banner, which reads as ‘violence’, during a protest in Sao Paulo yesterday. Photograph: Reuters

Brazil experienced its biggest wave of protests in more than two decades as up to a quarter of a million people took to the streets of a dozen cities (...)

Pope Francis gives the thumbs up during the weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican today. Photograph: Tony Gentile/Reuters

Pope Francis has acknowledged the existence of a “gay lobby” and a “stream of corruption” in the Vatican, according to reports in Catholic media. Th(...)

Association of Catholics in Ireland steering group member Jacqueline Nelson (right)  and Soline Humbert light candles at the association’s launch in a Dublin hotel on Saturday.  Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

A lay Catholic organisation that wants ordinary parishioners to have a greater role in the church was launched at the weekend.About 150 people attende(...)

Some 150 people turned up this morning to the launch of a new lay organisation for Irish Catholics. The Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI), a n(...)

Bill Bolger, who died recently in his sleep, was a pioneering force in the birth of the Irish design industry. Design had largely been a cottage indus(...)

“The ‘exorcism’ lasted 10 seconds. When Pope Francis arrived, he immediately rested his left hand on the young man’s head and spoke with a priest standing behind the wheelchair. The young man kissed the pope’s ring, suggesting that the devil was not in total control.” Photograph: AP/APTN

I’d been wondering when the media would get their teeth into Pope Francis. The initial response to the election of Cardinal Bergoglio was posit(...)

The Vatican has played down suggestions the pope may have performed an exorcism on a sick man. The pope laid his hands on the head of a y(...)

Pope Francis holds a dove before his Wednesday general audience at St Peter’s Square at the Vatican this week

In one of his most outspoken comments since his election two months ago, Pope Francis has called for worldwide “financial reform along ethical (...)

Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned as head of the Catholic Church in Scotland after acknowledging sexual misconduct, will leave Scotland for months of “prayer and penance”, the Vatican said on today. Photograph : Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned as head of the Catholic Church in Scotland after acknowledging sexual misconduct, will leave Scotland for (...)

The Pope led a mass today for candidates for sainthood Antonio Primaldo, Mother Laura Montoya and Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

Pope Francis has proclaimed as saints some 800 Italians killed in the 15th century for refusing to convert to Islam, and said many Christians (...)

Browse by Publication Date

March 1859
« Month »
« Year »
MTWTFSS