COLUMNS

	Ann Wroe ‘Ideally, I like a book to be pristine, like a field of snow’
	Christopher Howse ‘In future, possession of a few grains of incense may become an imprisonable offence’
	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 ...