COMMENTARY: The Italian cardinal’s Ostpolitik diplomacy is considered a key to the collapse of European communism. It was nothing of the sort.

Let’s face it — life is absurd, to the point where it makes little sense when you weigh up its pros and cons. We’re all just ...

Bishop Heiner Wilmer, new president of the German Bishops’ Conference, could take a more conciliatory approach to Rome even as debates continue over the Synodal Way.

By Asad Mirza Two largest religions of the world, i.e. Christianity and Islam started their most important period of fasting ...

After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nine months later – but that wasn’t the end of her ordeal ...

As the Games close, we reflect on how the athletes are like modern ascetics. Through commitment and sacrifice, they achieve a ...

Frank McNally sits in on a new production of Seán O’Casey’s play and revisits the ‘chaotic scenes’ that greeted it in 1926 ...

Cambridge University Professor Josephine Quinn on why the 'West' was a hard-won idea, and why the idea of great civilizations of the world is so attractive and so harmful to the practice of history ...

Anna Murdoch Mann was a novelist, journalist, philanthropist, wife and mother whose life spanned the globe from Blacktown to New York.

Anna Murdoch Mann embodied grace, style and quiet accomplishment. During a 31-year marriage to Rupert Murdoch as he conquered the media world, Anna, a former journalist, served as a deeply trusted ...