All Catholic bishops are required to submit a letter of resignation when they reach 75 years of age, but recently Francis has ...

When the ten million and more come marching home again—such of them as do come back—most of them will not be bothering their young but hard-boiled heads any more about religion in the old home ...

Is smoking a moral issue as well as a health problem? The most conclusive indictment of cigarette smoking issued in America to date—the report to the Surgeon General—produced some carefully ...

Churchmen across the country who didn’t call him “Uncle Ted” with affection or disgust had another nickname related to his proclivities: “Blanche.” American bishops now facing questions ...

The churchmen's intervention came as a setback to Mr Blair, who responded to last week's million-strong march in London by vigorously asserting the "moral case for removing Saddam". Despite global ...

S. clergymen are moving steadily away from their pre-war pacifism, a new fortnightly will be launched next week to give antipacifist churchmen a voice. Its title: Christianity and Crisis.

In medieval England it was only priests and churchmen who could read. However, non-churchmen were able to get around this by learning a verse from the Bible, which they would recite. This became ...