The Catholic Church says the Zambian government has used state media to accuse it of supporting homosexuality and

China said that Vatican opposition to the official Chinese Catholic body’s ordination of a bishop amount to a violation of freedom of religion.

Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Britain on Thursday hoping to improve frayed ties between Catholics and Anglicans.

The bishop of the Flemish city of Bruges has resigned after admitting sexually abusing a young boy several years ago.

<i>Marina Hyde</i> takes issue with Pope Benedict’s version of the priestly paedophilia scandal.

Amid apparent tensions between church and state over a number of moral and political issues, there is sustained and reasoned dialogue.

Tens of thousands of disaffected Anglicans could become Catholics following this week’s decree by Pope Benedict to poach whole Protestant communities.