Toine Van Teeffelen, Educational Adviser at educational institutes in Palestine writes:Here are a number of unsettling developments on the West Bank in the past year that have received little ...

Reflection on the painting Matthew is the only Gospel writer who tells us about the dreams of Joseph. Mark and John do not ...

Pope Leo XIV has donated three truckloads of humanitarian aid to regions of Ukraine most affected by bombing - "where there ...

Too often in Britain might we encounter conversations where Abbots and Abbesses are assumed to be artefacts of the past - or ...

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Jesus Christ,Today's Feast of the Holy Family continues our rejoicing in the birth of Jesus, our ...

December 2025I do find the first reading from Sirach rather lop sided. Of course it belongs to an age where lines of ...

Opera del Santa Marial Del Fiore, Sala del Paradiso, Florence. Source: Christian Art. Gospel of 27 December 2025 John 20:2-8.

On the feast of Saint Stephen, the first martyr of the Church, Pope Leo XIV invited the faithful to contemplate martyrdom not ...

Raphael was asked to depict key events from the Acts of the Apostles, focusing especially on the lives of Saint Peter and ...

The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev Stephen Cottrell says he was 'intimidated' by Israeli militias during his recent visit to the Holy Land. During his Christmas Day sermon yesterday at York Minster, ...

Pope Leo XIV used his first Christmas Urbi et Orbi message to renew his appeal for peace, dialogue, and responsibility, ...

In his first Christmas message as Bishop of Plymouth, the Right Reverend Nicholas Hudson reflects on the wonder of the ...