COLUMNS

	Clifford Longley ?How different was the lot of British seamen from that of the slaves they tried to liberate??
	Laurence Freeman ?In the South, even amid poverty and injustice, there is still vitality?
	Christopher Howse ?More than a miracle, you might think, she could do with an annulment?
	Jonathan Tulloch Glimpses of Eden

       

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 ...