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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The proportion of people in Poland regularly attending Sunday Mass last year rose by just over half a per cent from 2023 to 2024.

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

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