A sceptre that went missing from a seafront statue ... But the 5ft-long (1.5m) staff, topped with a cross, disappeared from his right hand some time between 1977 and 1986. Dorset Council is ...

The books that made the shortlist were: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry (Canongate); The Mare by Angharad Hampshire (Northodox Press), The Book of Days by Francesca kay (Swift Press), Glorious ...

Whispers of the Witch Tree, you must be all too familiar with the constant struggle of running dry on mana during tough ...

Pope Francis, formerly Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, was the first Latin-American pontiff in the history of the ...

gold cross and a sceptre. In another break with tradition, he refused the usual papal platform that would have elevated him above the cardinals flanking him on the balcony. And instead of ...

His sceptre is justice (cf ... but through a love which suffers for us and with us. He takes up the Cross, our cross, the burden of being human, the burden of the world. And so he goes before ...

Pope Francis was one of the few religious leaders who managed to feel relevant in a world increasingly allergic to dogma.

Unable to attend the Good Friday ceremony in person for the third consecutive year, the pope offered deep meditations for the ...

That simple but so important Sign of the Cross we see so often holds a hidden history that takes us back to the origins of ...

In the article, Daniel Silliman described the work of a Bible scholar who has proposed the possibility, based on historical ...