On Monday rsquo s Feast-day of St Edmund Campion S J perhaps the most illustrious and gifted of the British Jesuit martyrs Heythrop College announced that beginning the next academic year undergraduate students would no longer be enrolled Heythrop has been since the 1970s a constituent coll

Protest leaders call for end to civil disobedience campaign as risk of further violence increased.

History was made in the Vatican today when Pope Francis and other leaders of the world rsquo s main religions mdash Christianity Islam Hinduism Buddhism and Judaism mdash signed a joint declaration to work together to eradicate modern slavery in its various forms by the year 2020 nbsp nbsp Pope

Pope Francis stated unequivocally in Istanbul on November 30 that he as Bishop of Rome and the worldwide Catholic Church desire unity ndash lsquo full communion rsquo - with the 300 million member Orthodox Churches and he added that the only condition for achieving this is ldquo the shared pr

Pope Calls on Muslim Leaders to Condemn Terrorist Attacks and Violence Done in the Name of IslamPope Francis called on Islamic political religious academic and intellectual leaders to condemn terrorist attacks and violence done in name of Islam nbsp nbsp He did so in a 45 minute press conferenc

Pope Francis took everybody by surprise at the end of the solemn Orthodox prayer service in the church of St George in the Fanar Istanbul nbsp on the evening of November 29 by asking the ecumenical patriarch of the 300 million member Orthodox Church nbsp Bartholomew I ldquo to pray for me an