COLUMNS

	Clifford Longley ‘People are telling themselves that contraception is not a sin but a necessity’
	Christopher Howse’s Presswatch ‘I’m not sure many moral theologians censure test-tube sheep breeding’
	Ann Wroe ‘The old clock in the cottage wall should be stopped or slow, under a cushion of hours'
	Robert Mickens Letter from Rome
	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 ...