COLUMNS

	Clifford Longley ‘An occasional display of principled opposition to the party line is necessary’
	Christopher Howse ‘There could be worse examples for a couple of 22-year-old Catholics from Merseyside to set’
	Ann Wroe ‘When I am in them, dreams are as solid as life. But waking melts them away’
	Martin Boland ‘Catholic art had a visceral visual vernacular and was all about sensory spectacle’
	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 ...