As he spoke, a squall of spittle, booze and bonhomie struck me between the eyes. The puritan in me bridled. “Not guilty,” I ...

It’s covered in dust and well past its best, but intact. The lid sags with age and the shelf it sits on is worryingly bowed.

If we were to ask who is the most famous liberation theologian of all, answers might be divided between Gustavo Gutiérrez – ...

Last week I was sitting knitting. My Other was in the kitchen watching football, shouting with joy or agony, depending. Then ...

When I was very young, I was frightened and upset by the noise of a vacuum cleaner. My mother put her arm around it and said, ...

As I pause at the side of the bath / And forget.” It’s not the most arresting opening, but it was the first line of poetry I ...

A new pub opened in Brighton recently. It’s in the lively centre of the city, between North Street and the huge North Arch of ...

A group of 50 French Catholics who were killed by the Nazis in the Second World War were beatified at the Cathedral of ...

The Republican congressman Riley Moore led a US delegation on a fact-finding mission to Nigeria to report on allegations of a ...

The religious congregation that runs the Nigerian school where hundreds of pupils and staff were abducted appealed for the ...

India’s Supreme Court accepted a petition filed by the Catholic bishops challenging the constitutional validity of a severe ...

A moment bolstered by the three renegade Austrian nuns who were evicted from their convent and returned as squatters ...