Official opening of St. Paul’s Catholic School in Leicester, England, April 9, 2015. (Credit: Catholic Church England and Wales.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Data newly released shows that ...

Be careful what you read — it may change you, for better or worse. In the case of Joseph Pearce, his early reading made him a violent white supremacist. It also landed him in prison. While there, he ...

A new Catholic festival in England hopes to bring many different expressions of the Church together under one banner from July 25–28. The breadth of the festival, called WeBelieve, is unique in a ...

On Dec. 9 the Guardian U.K. reported that 40% of 13- to 17-year-olds in England and Wales affected by violence are turning to ...

Moth, 67, replaces Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who stepped down after reaching the mandatory retirement age. Born in Zambia and ...

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The number of Roman Catholic adherents in England and Wales fell by more than 90,000 in 2012, despite a wave of immigrants from Poland and other Eastern European countries ...

Richard Moth becomes Bishop of Westminster, succeeding Cardinal Vincent Nichols who is retiring.

The typical tale told by Protestant apologists is that the Catholic Church in England at the end of the Middle Ages was all but dead. The people longed for a simple, Bible-based religion free of all ...

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – If anything symbolized the conflicts in the Church in the post-Vatican II world, it was Pope St. Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. When the pontiff reaffirmed the ...

Father Matthew Topham, priest-in-charge of St Mary’s, East Hendred in Oxfordshire, is acutely conscious of the weight of Reformation history that comes with his role.

According to legend, Joseph of Arimathea brought the chalice used at the Last Supper when he came to England in 63 A.D., about 30 years after the Crucifixion. That chalice set the stage for the ...