In the end, there are only two things that matter about human life. The first is that we die, and that our flesh will rot in ...

A friend of great taste and discernment once told me that she had a horror of brown. Not so much on her person – she’s an ...

The right to free speech is a hot topic. The public debate surrounding it has thrown up some unlikely figures of controversy.

It's the mid-1980s, and my mother is obsessed with the American cookery writer and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart’s first book ...

Pope Leo asked Catholics to remember Myanmar in their prayers for peace, urging the international community to act to end ...

St Peter's Basilica lacks the monastic restraint of the church where I usually worship. Emphasis rather than suggestion is ...

Vatican officials do not understand the situation of Christians and must learn to “work with the local churches, not above”, ...

Church leaders welcomed the announcement from US President Donald Trump that he would reprove Nigeria for religious freedom ...

Brazilian Church organisations criticised the huge police operation carried out in Rio de Janeiro on 28 October which ...

It is “not appropriate” to refer to the Virgin Mary as “Co-redemptrix” because it obscures Christ’s exclusive role in the ...

After a multiple book project had been unexpectedly cancelled I was feeling a bit wobbly about my writing. I had also interrupted an illustration course in ...