Speaker John Boehner extends invitation

‘Unprecedented’ vote scuppers funding

“I perceive it as an award also for my teachers because many of my teachers, they were priests, they spent many years in communist concentration camps, or prisons and uranium mines and they had very little possibility to write or publish and many died during communism. They inspired me morally and intellectually and I think…

Meeting follows publication of responses to the Vatican’s questionnaire on the family

Pope Francis has called for prayers for all those touched by the Malaysian airliner mystery. Addressing pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square last Sunday, the Pope said: “I invite you to remember in prayer the passengers and crew of the Malaysia airline, and for their families.  We are close to them in this difficult moment.”…

Eager pilgrims from as far away as Germany and the United States are set to make the journey to the town for an epic re-telling of the Passion of Christ.

Pope Francis was set to meet with families of innocent victims of the Mafia this week during a prayer vigil for those killed by criminal violence. The Vatican announced the Pontiff would travel to the Church of San Gregorio Magno in Rome on March 21 and meet with 700 family members gathered there for a…

Four new Educate Together schools are to open their gates later this year.

To mark the Pope’s first anniversary, the Vatican has uploaded to its official website a book offering photographs and memorable phrases from the Pontiff’s first year on the throne of St Peter. Entitled Do we want to be holy? Yes or no?, the online publication has been made available through  English, French, German, Italian, Spanish…

Bookshops unable to keep Evangelii Gaudium in stock.