In the first-ever extended papal interview with an English-language broadcaster, Francis reiterated his embrace of women’s ...

One day in 1976, while a student at Ampleforth College, I heard the great bell at the Abbey Church ring out to mark the ...

An inquiry in the Diocese of Trier concluded that successive bishops covered up the actions of a notorious abuser for decades ...

There is much to celebrate about morning birdsong at this time of year, but the bizarre and otherworldly sounds of the night ...

The established Church is used to living with diversity, but the looming divide over same-sex blessings threatens a deeper ...

When I was little, so I’m told, I loved nothing more than to be read to from the Mothercare catalogue. Not for me Brambly ...

Catherine Nixey’s book takes its inspiration from Celsus, a second-century critic of the new Christian religion whose work is ...

Produced by Michelle and Barack Obama, Bodkin is a surprising departure from their excellent but on the whole worthy Netflix ...

The journey of a painting from an altar to a staircase to a cathedral chapter room exposes some turbulent episodes in English ...

According to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine, extreme climatic conditions resulted last year in the lowest ...

The geums and the swallows have arrived at the same time. I say swallows, but it was just one at first, a lone male harbinger ...

The great theme of the novelist Cormac McCarthy was the debunking of myths surrounding the American Wild West – in his view, ...