Headlines and media stories about asylum seekers and immigration are so often negative. It is increasingly rare for us to hear from those who have sought ...

YOU MIGHT EXPECT 76-year-old Cardinal Arthur Roche to look weary and overburdened. As prefect for the Dicastery of Divine ...

Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, the Archbishop of Rabat who stepped aside last month after sexual abuse accusations, reported the appointment of an ...

I raced through Matthias Jügler’s Mayfly Season (Indigo Press, £12.99; Tablet price £11.69), sensitively translated by Jo ...

IT IS 12 years since the former children’s home in Tuam, County Galway, in the west of Ireland, seized the world’s attention.

St André Cathedral in Bordeaux held Mass on Sunday for parishes that closed down because of the wildfires approaching the ...

ANN WIDDECOMBE left the Church of England and was received into the Catholic Church following the General Synod’s decision to ...

Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally has reiterated her commitment to reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, during a visit to the dungeons where enslaved people were imprisoned in Ghana.

A Nigerian court sentenced two commanders of the Ansaru terrorist group to life imprisonment for their role in the abduction ...

Bishops in Madagascar voiced alarm over the rising numbers of killings and kidnappings of children since the beginning of the ...

Andy Burnham’s government faces precisely the same dilemmas that helped to derail his predecessor. Not the least of them is ...

Gary Mead’s biography of Field Marshal Bernard Law ...