And so to midsummer, official season of dreams, drought declar­ations and, most omi­n­ously, Yellow Book open gardens. Right ...

When the children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza reported to government this week that large numbers of children are ...

The pandemic was a watershed in the arts: the BC/AD of funding, programming, planning – of survival, even. The BBC Proms are ...

We have produced a society and a culture in which it is impossible to say “I am unhappy”. Instead, we say we have “mental ...

There’s been a lot of talk about tears this week, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer was caught on camera welling up during ...

Some of the approaches to doors are lovely – the gate, if there is one, opens easily, the path to the door is not overgrown ...

It’s just over 20 years since I saw an ad in the Evening Standard: “Catholic prison charity seeks director.” My curiosity about Catholicism had been piqued by ...

Rome’s Church of Santa Maria del Popolo is best-known today for its cache of Caravaggios. But in March 1256, long before the Caravaggios arrived, Pope ...

Pope Leo said the world is “burning both from global warming and from armed conflicts” as he celebrated the first “Mass for ...

Is bothar currach é an saol, fairsing do dhaoine áirithe agus cúag do dhaoine eile” St. Columbanus wrote in his fifth sermon, ...

A court rejected an abuse survivor’s claim against the Archdiocese of Cologne for more than €800,000 Euros because she was ...

On 30 June, Fr Héctor Alejandro Pérez was shot in the arm, chest and stomach by two men on motorcycles in the south-eastern ...