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As the sporting world and fans await the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympics and the Paralympic Games, eight Catholic dioceses in Greater Paris have already ignited their own Olympic flame by organizing the “Holy Games.” The project is a collaboration between the Archdiocese of Paris and the French…

After belonging to B.B. King and Pope John Paul II’s Vatican collection, the guitar is expected to fetch more than $80,000 at auction

Coalition government to slim down school curriculum after cramming of subjects under previous nationalist administration

Our slow travel expert discovers the legacy of popes and revolutionaries on a trip south from Kraków to the resort town in the Tatra Mountains

It's still dark outside when Gianni Crea pushes open the imposing entrance door to the Vatican Museums, a heavy ring of keys in his hand.

Dec. 12 is a special day for millions of Catholics around the world, especially those of Mexican descent. Known as el Dia de la Virgen Guadalupe, it is a popular feast day that celebrates the Virgin of Guadalupe: a brown-skinned, Indigenous vision of Mary that Catholics believe appeared to a…

The success of centre-left parties follows the collapse in devotion. Like Ireland, we are loosening the church’s grip on the state, says Polish journalist and author Wojciech Orliński

Bishop Remigiose Inchananiyil of Kerala has come under fire for creating a religious court reminiscent of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages to try a Catholic priest accused of sedition and insubordination. Pope Paul II apologised for the cruelties of these medieval church courts, and the order challenges the Indian…

The Guardian’s Europe correspondent Jon Henley and picture editor Guy Lane reflect on a half-century of upheaval

A woman who suffered abuse in one of the same institutions as Sinead O’Connor said the singer ‘made Ireland a different place’.

Sinead O’Connor has been described as a woman ‘for the women of Ireland’ by those leaving flowers outside her former home.