COLUMNS

	Clifford Longley ‘International law often follows events rather than shapes them’
	Christopher Howse ‘Twenty-three people had signed up to re-enact the Crucifixion, four using real nails’
	Margaret Hebblethwaite ‘I used to hear the plaster thump down in great clumps in the night, leaving a mess’
	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 ...