ROME – When Pope Francis visits the French Mediterranean island of Corsica tomorrow, it’ll be a chance to reiterate his well-known positions on migration and climate, and to empower the appeal ...

MUMBAI – A May 25 attack on Christians in north-central Pakistan by an enraged Muslim mob, accusing a Christian man of having defaced the Quran, represents a “dark day” for the country’s ...

Of all the recent commentary on the Middle East, what has been flickering irritably in my peripheral vision are the twinkling, pastel-coloured Marian devotions on the many Instagram accounts I ...

Then Herod, seeing that he had been made fun of by the Magi, was very angry indeed. And he sent and destroyed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in its boundaries of two years and ...

“The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts like any double-edged sword but more finely.” (Hebrews 4:12) In Sunday’s second reading, why is the word of God compared not merely to ...

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night Tahir Hamut Izgil Jonathan Cape, £18.99, 272 pages This poet’s account of life under intense surveillance in Urumqi, the capital of the Uyghur autonomous region ...