In the vanishing light of a mid-November Saturday, at the damp end of a week of low cloud, in the wake of a gut-churning ...

How do you envisage a prison library? The one at HMP Wands­worth is commodious, with deep chairs and shelves packed with ...

I am really scared right now. I know I am not the only one. The source of this fear is no mere private matter, but what I ...

She was born late in the nineteenth century and was, for me in the middle of the twentieth century, a love, a saint and an ...

Back in the summer, I turned up for Mass at Bristol’s Clifton Cathedral, only to find it was the parish Confirmation Mass. At ...

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner met Pope Francis in Rome this morning, where at his general audience he renewed his pleas ...

My father was born in a Dublin orphanage in 1935, where he spent the first three years of his life, before being adopted by Irish Catholics in Yorkshire.

The Vatican’s secretary of state warned that the trajectory of the war in Ukraine was “deeply troubling” after the US and the ...

As Advent gets under way charities’ advent services will highlight social needs and peacemaking, along with raising awareness ...

The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference said that it “totally rejects” a recommendation the incoming government should ...

Shoppers in the West Midlands are the first in the UK to be invited to make donations to seven charities through vending ...

Surveys analysed by the Anscombe Centre, Oxford reveal that while “a clear majority” of the public support the change, “fewer ...