A sceptre that went missing from a seafront statue ... But the 5ft-long (1.5m) staff, topped with a cross, disappeared from his right hand some time between 1977 and 1986. Dorset Council is ...

As a pope who wanted to stay close to the people and at times advocated a more moderate line at the Church, Pope Francis ...

The books that made the shortlist were: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry (Canongate); The Mare by Angharad Hampshire (Northodox Press), The Book of Days by Francesca kay (Swift Press), Glorious ...

Pope Francis, formerly Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, was the first Latin-American pontiff in the history of the ...

His sceptre is justice (cf ... but through a love which suffers for us and with us. He takes up the Cross, our cross, the burden of being human, the burden of the world. And so he goes before ...

Pope Francis was one of the few religious leaders who managed to feel relevant in a world increasingly allergic to dogma.

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum, thousands gathered Friday evening for the solemn Via Crucis procession, ...

That simple but so important Sign of the Cross we see so often holds a hidden history that takes us back to the origins of ...