Catholic Church

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

when i get in touch with rosa pich by skype during holy week, i discover that she is on holiday with 12 of her children in torreciudad, a sh...

Jack Valero

i once asked a free-market economist how he would analyse the irish famine, which is sometimes seen as an example of too much free trade: wh...

Mary Kenny

jesus would have agreed with corbyn sir – in his notebook (may 5), stephen daisley of the scottish daily mail dismisses jeremy corbyn’s labo...

The Catholic Herald

arriving in durham late one march afternoon, i realised that if i was quick i could just make evensong at the cathedral. it was well worth t...

Niall Gooch

i have to say a word in defence of all round to mrs brown’s , the bbc one series that has just ended (but can be found on iplayer). leftie c...

Tim Stanley

jim sheridan’s handsome yet flimsy melodrama the secret scripture ( ★★ , cert 12a, 109 mins) turns out to be a tale of two actresses, one gr...

Mike McCahill

the moment the royal court announced it was staging jez butterworth’s the ferryman , the whole season sold out and a west end transfer was g...

Robert Tanitch

defenders of the unborn by daniel williams, oup, £23 daniel williams’s defenders of the unborn is a fascinating, revealing and even-handed a...

Piers Shepherd

fatima mysteries by grzegorz gorny and janusz rosikon, ignatius, £27 fatima mysteries: mary’s message to the modern age is a large and heavy...

Donal Anthony Foley