Catholic Church

ghana bishops praise new mining policy the bishops’ conference of ghana has praised the government’s crackdown on illegal mining. hundreds o...

Staff Reporter

homophobic bullying plainly exists and is contrary to the teaching of the church – so what could be wrong with a document on combatting it? ...

Dan Hitchens

theologically speaking, the stock of the angels in the church has been falling pretty steadily since its berkshire hathaway-like peak in the...

Matthew Walther

when china’s last empire, the qing dynasty, ended in 1911, christianity there entered what many scholars call the “golden age” of the missio...

Anthony E Clark

the salesian house of studies has not changed much since it was built on a hong kong hillside in the 1930s. but the city around it has alter...

Megan Griffiths

the death of the moors murderer ian brady hasn’t brought out the best in us, has it? “monster of the moors is dead” is the daily mail headli...

Melanie McDonagh

forty-five years is a long time to wait for anything. yet the family of joe lynskey, missing since 1972, has not given up on finding his bod...

Claire McGowan

first it was tim farron and then andrew turner. there are a few trifling things for the world to worry about, such as the war in syria, star...

Ann Widdecombe

in february i accepted an invitation to a “national peace symposium” at a mosque in morden, to be held the following month. nobody at the ti...

Neil Addison

informed catholics are likely to dismiss the animal rights protesters who stormed a church in italy earlier this year, demanding that the ch...

Carmody Grey