Pope Leo XIV officially opened his pontificate as history’s first American pope on Sunday, presiding over an inaugural Mass ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, vowed on Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace ... Leo appeared to choke up when the two potent symbols of the papacy were ...

Nationalists try to chip away at the symbols of partition ... not have the right to vote for an Irish president. (One man, one vote – but only if you are Catholic.) Nationalists see a united ...

Ice hockey in Belfast is a spectator sport with no deep history on either side of the Protestant-Catholic conflict. It’s a ...

The headstone was erected on October 28th, 2023 to mark the 50th anniversary of the killing by the IRA of Mr Doherty, a Catholic Royal ... with the harp and shamrock symbol of the RUC bearing ...

On "Preach," Anthony SooHoo, S.J., draws on unexpected images from Celtic Christianity in his homily for Pentecost, Year C.

Laura Calleja sits down with one of Malta’s leading artists, Gabriel Buttiġieġ, as he prepares to unveil his first solo ...

The noon (11am Irish time) prayer drew thousands of people ... gather in St Peter's Square this morning, bearing flags and Catholic symbols from across the globe. Priests and nuns mingled with ...

An organization tracks down the Jewish heroes of World Wars I and II, and honors them with the symbol of their faith, even ...

Pope Leo will have the challenge of following in the footsteps of the late Francis, whose popularity saw him dubbed ‘the people’s pope’.

A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining ...