COLUMNS

	Clifford Longley ?Religious identity is not primarily about ideas or opinions but about who you are?
	Peter Stanford ?I?m always saying that children today are as safe as my own generation?
	Margaret Hebblethwaite ?The real war of the future will be fought not for oil, but for water?
	Christopher Howse?s presswatch?After bitter life debates, the death of strangers centuries ago seems a breath of fresh air?
	Jonathan Tulloch Glimpses of Eden
	Robert Mickens Letter from Rome

       

This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ...

Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...