Special Reports

EXCLUSIVE: Diocese bans celebration of 'Pride month' in Catholic schools

the celebration of so-called homosexual “pride month” is to be banned in every catholic school in the diocese of nottingham under new guidan...

New report details experience of Christians detained in North Korea

rome newsroom, nov 3, 2021 / 07:00 am a prisoner held in a cell in north korea for two months noticed a distinctive pattern of behavior amon...

Always Dinner and Never Breakfast: How to Tell You're in Narnia

you pass through a magical portal and are confronted in the woods by a deceitful horned creature who offers you sardines on toast. you accep...

Lady Mabel's Gold: a refreshing sequel to Simon Caldwell's Beast of Bethulia Park

the northern mill town of wigan has an illustrious literary history as the setting for george orwell’s 1937 investigation/memoir  the r...

Elizabeth Thornton

Dickensian levels of poverty still exist today

there are few, if any, authors more firmly associated with christmas than charles dickens. he may not have been, as the movie suggests, the ...

Death and dishonour in the Docklands

housed inside an old georgian sugar warehouse, the museum of london docklands serves as a salutary reminder of the power and ambition of the...

EXCLUSIVE: Newman miracle mother calls for English saint to be made 'Doctor of the Church'

the american woman whose miraculous healing at the point of death led to the canonisation of st john henry newman has added her voice to cal...

Northern Ireland Executive call for independent victim-centred investigation of Mother and Baby homes and Magdalene Laundries

the northern ireland executive in stormont has ordered an independent investigation into northern ireland's mother and baby homes, after the...

Lurking in the shadows: The Beast of Bethulia Park

journalist simon caldwell’s debut novel the beast of bethulia park might just be the most believable thriller on our shelves this year. we f...

Georgia L. Gilholy

Valencia's flood victims remembered in London during Requiem Mass at St James’s, Spanish Place

victims of valencia’s terrible floods were remembered at a requiem mass held at st james’s, spanish place church in london, with embass...