Statement from the Catholic Diocese of Nottingham on allegations concerning Boohoo’s employment practices in Leicester factories

The Bishop of Nottingham has welcomed reports that an official inquiry is due to be launched into allegations of modern slavery.

Pope Francis will offer Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on 14 March to mark 500 years of Catholic faith in the Philippines.

Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the month of March is for a renewed experience of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

In his video for the prayer intention, created by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, the pope asked for prayers that the Sacrament of Reconciliation would be experienced “with renewed depth, to taste the forgiveness and infinite mercy of God.”

Pope Francis appealed this morning for an end to “bloody clashes” and the release of political leaders in Burma.

Speaking at the end of his general audience today, the pope lamented the deaths of protesters following a military coup in the Southeast Asian country on 1 February.

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland has set out the case for protecting Britain’s international development commitment, following recent calls from Cardinal Nichols and other church leaders to continue spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on supporting the world’s poorest people.

Pope Francis said in a new book released on Tuesday that the world could face a catastrophe like the Great Flood if human beings fail to address climate change.

Benedict XVI addressed conspiracy theories about his resignation as pope, Pope Francis’ trip to Iraq, and Joe Biden in an interview with an Italian newspaper published on Monday.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Santa Marta Group, has welcomed a US investigation into allegations of labour exploitation in the garment-making industry in factories in Leicester.

Cardinal Charles Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, used his homily for the Second Sunday of Lent to issue a passionate call for the transfiguration of a nation and its people.

Myanmar Church flags Credit: CBCEW Statement of the Executive Committee of Justice & Peace Europe on the situation in Myanmar The peaceful elections of November …

Scotland’s Catholic bishops said today that they plan to engage in “dialogue” with government officials over a cap on worshipers when public Masses resume in time for Easter.

The Madonna Advocata icon in Rome’s Dominican Church of Santa Maria del Rosario on Monte Mario. Photo credits: Paul Badde. Eight hundred years ago, a …

Pope Francis said today that it is important to remember when facing a difficult trial that the “Lord is risen and does not permit darkness to have the last word.”

When Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako turns 80 on 27 February, the cardinals eligible to vote in a conclave will drop to 127, seven more than the limit of 120 set by Paul VI and confirmed by John Paul II.

Pope Francis has said that seeing a psychiatrist in Argentina helped him with anxiety when he was a younger priest in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper today.

For Damien Richardson, it just seemed like another job. A man had asked him if he would clear out the house of his late sister in north Dublin.

After Robert Cardinal Sarah’s retirement as Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of Sacraments, the big question around the Vatican is who will take his place.

In just a week’s time, Pope Francis will touch down in Baghdad for his historic visit to Iraq – the first of any Pope to …

As Covid-19 vaccines continue to be rolled out across the world, Archbishop John Wilson has joined with the St Francis Leprosy Guild in calling for people with leprosy to be given equal access.