In its daily bulletin this morning, the Vatican said, “On 31 July 2025, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, ...

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Sisters Vandana Francis and Preeta Mary of the Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate (ASMI) order and Sukhman Mandavi, a resident ...

Gladstone described him as “the greatest popular leader whom the world has ever seen”. His followers acclaimed him as “The Liberator”, his opponents mocked ...

We Irish seem to have a knack for storytelling. Maybe it’s the old Bardic tradition, or the result of being born on an island, or maybe it’s just the “gift of ...

These are quiet summer days. Pope Leo recently returned to the ­stifling heat of Rome after two weeks in the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo. Diocesan ...

I was in Paraguay when I heard on the night of 15 April 2019 that Notre- Dame was burning. I felt horror and grief, but it was difficult to explain to my ...