COLUMNS

	Tim Hames ‘It would be churlish not to cheer the achievement that is Northern Ireland’
	Margaret Hebblethwaite ‘Chávez greeted Lugo with delight at Lima. “We are the bad boys here,” he said’
	Victoria Combe ‘There is an African saying that “it takes a village to raise a child”’
	Laurence Freeman ‘Head shaved, every inch an abbess, like all Theravada monks she eats once a day at noon’
	Richard Rodriguez ‘The same Church that taught me to love denies that it is love that I feel for this man’
	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 ...