As he spoke, a squall of spittle, booze and bonhomie struck me between the eyes. The puritan in me bridled. “Not guilty,” I ...

If we were to ask who is the most famous liberation theologian of all, answers might be divided between Gustavo Gutiérrez – ...

It’s covered in dust and well past its best, but intact. The lid sags with age and the shelf it sits on is worryingly bowed.

Last week I was sitting knitting. My Other was in the kitchen watching football, shouting with joy or agony, depending. Then ...

A new pub opened in Brighton recently. It’s in the lively centre of the city, between North Street and the huge North Arch of ...

When I was very young, I was frightened and upset by the noise of a vacuum cleaner. My mother put her arm around it and said, ...

As I pause at the side of the bath / And forget.” It’s not the most arresting opening, but it was the first line of poetry I ...

A group of 50 French Catholics who were killed by the Nazis in the Second World War were beatified at the Cathedral of ...

The Republican congressman Riley Moore led a US delegation on a fact-finding mission to Nigeria to report on allegations of a ...

The religious congregation that runs the Nigerian school where hundreds of pupils and staff were abducted appealed for the ...

India’s Supreme Court accepted a petition filed by the Catholic bishops challenging the constitutional validity of a severe ...

A moment bolstered by the three renegade Austrian nuns who were evicted from their convent and returned as squatters ...