Not only was Marianne Martine the first woman documented to have written a symphony, but because of this, in eighteenth century Vienna, she stood alongside Mozart as the first female […] ...

J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture When National Socialist Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, it sought to ...

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The Czech Republic signed a treaty over its relations with the Vatican on Thursday, becoming one of the last European Union ...

The Czech Republic and the Vatican on Thursday signed a treaty setting the framework for cooperation between the Catholic Church and Czech state, following decades of talks.

China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four ...

Greek authorities have frozen the bank accounts and assets of five cafe and nightclub owners on suspicion of laundering Catholic church money supplied by two church officials, a senior Greek official ...

Sleek, confident and peppered with delicious portraits in pursuit, deceit and evasion, the carnival of papal intrigue known ...

Ralph Fiennes, who considers himself a lapsed but curious Catholic, met with priests to discuss Jesus while filming his papal ...

Being the first country which adopted Christianity, where apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew preached in the first century, ...

In a packed retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the artist’s depictions of everyday objects take centre stage ...