COLUMNS

	Robert Mickens Letter from Rome
	Catherine Pepinster ‘The state is becoming a kind of Panopticon, the all-seeing inspection house’
	Laurence Freeman ‘The elders decided the dolphins were angry at being exploited and had taken revenge’
	Margaret Hebblethwaite ‘Arsenia was the only one to be born in a clinic instead of at home with a midwife’
	Christopher Howse 'A photograph of Ivan being kissed by his father occupied all the papers' front pages'
	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 ...