The process of choosing a new Pope begins in Rome, but Scotland remains without a cardinal who can take part in the vote.

This brilliant exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh sets out to redeem the reputation of James ...

First Minister John Swinney delivered the Programme for Government, which sets out the actions for the Government for the ...

A tiny hand-written book by a leading Scottish historian penned more than 70 years ago is among thousands of books donated to Edinburgh's Christian Aid book sale.

Scotland has only ever had a handful of cardinals. The Reformation, which led to restrictions on practising Catholicism lasting centuries, was largely to blame. Even when the Catholic Church was ...

Catholic feminist writer Debra Maria Flint has criticised the absence of women at the forthcoming Papal Conclave and called for the creation of lay women cardinals with voting rights at future synods.

Cardinal Keith O'Brien helped elect Pope Benedict XVI at the 2005 conclave The voting process to elect a new Pope, which is getting under way in Rome, will be the second conclave in a row without ...

Scotland had historically been allied with France, although the Reformation had loosened the Auld Alliance. But Jacobitism remained and was both greatly supported within Scotland and backed by the ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

The Irish News reports that a Free Presbyterian minister recently came out and said that Pope Francis is “most certainly an ...

Opened in 1542 as a Catholic Chapel for the (then) fashionable area of Edinburgh's Cowgate, the Scottish Reformation of 1560 turned the Magdalen Chapel into the birthplace of Scottish Presbyterianism.

The head of industry association Salmon Scotland is under formal investigation by the Scottish parliamentary ethics watchdog over allegations of improper lobbying practices and intimidation of an ...