Some well-informed people — Rupert Murdoch among them — have suggested that Mitt Romney could exploit Obama’s increasingly fractious relationship with America’s Catholics to win the presidential elections in November. The so-called 'Catholic vote' is often said to be the crucial swing factor in American democracy. Romney, however, may be facing a bigger socio-reli...

Created to remember one of the darkest chapters in mankind's history, Holocaust Day is for many people an occasion for unadulterated discomfort. Most of my family perished in the Holocaust and those who survived either hid in occupied Poland, pretending to be Catholics, fled to Uzbekistan in the then-USSR or, like Marcel Rayman, fought the Nazis. Today I re-read a letter Marcel sent to his fa...

Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson calls for Catholics and Protestants to unite to end sectarian division at the annual DUP conference.

The number of religious hate crimes recorded in Scotland rises by 10% in the past year with most targeted at Roman Catholics, say official figures.

Commonwealth votes unanimously to amend the law on royal succession and gender, and to lift the ban on marriage to Roman Catholics

THE Bishop of Paisley has warned Alex Salmond that his "ill-advised" attempts to deal with sectarianism and his stance on gay marriage could lead to him losing the con

IT IS a long-standing concern. An independent Scotland would be a Presbyterian Scotland, in which Catholics would find themselves in a position not dissimilar to that of their

The Pope's offer to Anglicans to convert to Catholicism risked inciting discrimination and even violence towards Catholics in Britain, according to leaked US diplomatic cables.

After yesterday's NUS-sponsored riot, I understand at least one person at the BBC briefly considered writing the words 'left-wing extremism' but he was tracked down and fired before any long-term damage could be caused. The only surprise is that anyone's surprised. Hey, leftists condemn the extremists rhetoric of Glenn Beck while hanging out with guys who support armed literary criticism.Meanwhile...

ONE week after Cardinal Keith O'Brien once again demonstrated his absorption with the fate of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, there is news of the massacre of many of his co-relig