COLUMNS

	Clifford Longley ‘The more “self-defence” knives there are, the greater the likelihood of stabbings’
	Shaun Middleton ‘The consciences of many priests are being tested by the subtle reform of the reform’
	Ann Wroe ‘People suddenly emerge, in overalls and blowing their noses, from bushes’
	Christopher Howse ‘A brothel in Australia is offering discounts to delegates to World Youth Day’
	Colenso Lambeth ‘What a diverse bunch the bishops are, all holed up in the cathedral together’
	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 ...