COLUMNS

	Tim Hames ‘If one winds back 20 years it is hard to imagine Georgia as an independent entity’
	Peter Stanford ‘Our small group at prayer was part of a continuum stretching back through history’
	Kevin Hoare ‘Commentators should be rejoicing that public examinations are no longer so elitist’
	Margaret Hebblethwaite ‘What really mattered to Lugo was that he was wearing Franciscan sandals, not shoes’
	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 ...