Large wine bottles simply didn't exist. Wine was sometimes put into earthenware vessels, but these were fragile and highly breakable. In antiquity, wineskins were essential for carrying wine during ...

Angelus address with pilgrims in St Peter's Square on Sunday, Pope Francis expressed his gratitude for the Gaza ...

An estimated 100,000 people took part in the 24th national demonstration for Palestine on Saturday. The police banned the organisers from having a march - but instead they were allowed to hold a ...

The Association of Teachers of Catholic Religious Education (ATCRE) are holding their annual National Conference on Saturday 1st March at St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School & 6th Form, Kings Norton, ...

Bill as it progresses through Parliament and nears a crucial stage, its second reading, on Friday 24 January 2025. The ecumenical Christian environmental charity says this will be "a huge day in ...

Would you like to walk in the steps of St Thomas More, St John Henry Newman, St Dunstan or St Ethelburga? The current series of Catholic History Walks, led by the author, broadcaster and historian, ...

This past Wednesday evening, the Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, announced that, after more than a year of unproductive deliberations, negotiations between the ...

The 2025 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will be marked by Archbishop Eamon Martin, Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, and ...