Novena investigates

Pope Francis meets in Bari February 23 with bishops of the Mediterranean

After the Bari ‘synod’… what’s the Church’s vision for the Mediterranean?

Pedestrians at rush hour

The medieval Church ban on incest made you the individualist you are today: study

A priest reads inside a confessional

Are the rules for confession in the Bible?

Jan Hus Statue and Tyn Church, Old Town Square, Prague

The Czech Republic is one of Europe’s least religious countries. Here’s why

A robot in Japan

Father WALL-E? Say hello to robot priests

Detail of a communist era mosaic above the entrance to the National Historical Museum in Tirana, Albania

Why Albania’s communist regime couldn’t root out religion

Polish priests Tadeusz Rydzyk (l) and Pawel Guzynski

Tale of two priests in Poland reveals distance between Church, Gospel

Holy Cross College, Dublin

What’s the Irish Church doing with its real estate holdings?

Artifical intelligence

This is what religion will look like in the future

Cardinal Robert Sarah

Six times ultraconservative Cardinal Sarah opposed Pope Francis

Cathedral of Saint-Alain de Lavaur, site of one of the recent attacks on churches in France

Attacks on churches in France point to loss of sense of sacred, not Christianophobia