In 1934, Pablo Picasso visited Spain with his wife and teenage son; and despite having already abandoned his childhood ...

Founded in 1840, The Tablet is the leading independent English-language Catholic weekly, celebrated for great writing, astute ...

When Pope Leo marked the sixtieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s declaration on education last October, he did not take a nostalgic look ...

The secretary general of the Anglican Communion Bishop Anthony Poggo and Gafcon’s Canadian-born secretary general Bishop Paul Donison had held meetings seeking to avoid the split. A group of Anglican ...

‘We don’t want to lose our freedom,’ said Archbishop D’Cruze. ‘We are accountable to the faithful – we cannot be accountable to the government. The Catholic Church is an autonomous institution.’ ...

In an interview some years ago, the poet Ruth Fainlight startled me with a casual reference to her friend Sylvia Plath. Seeing my awestruck expression, Ruth ...

Ishiguro’s parents left Japan for Surrey when he was five, but he had been born in Nagasaki less than a decade after the American atomic bomb. His mother, ...

‘Why will I run for the presidency? I have something that is more that the presidency. My priesthood is more than anything you can offer. Tinubu cannot offer me a ticket.’ Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah ...

Farnborough Hill, like many Catholic independent schools, counts itself fortunate to enjoy the continuous prayers and occasional presence of the few remaining ...

Only a few pages into Tom Hodgkinson’s guide, I was reminded why I’ve always hated Stoicism. This was the philosophy promoted by the sadists who ran boys’ ...

Sean O’Brien is an essential read. In recent decades he’s sounded a warning note about social and political decline in Britain, and about the contraction of ...

He watches in horror Russian troops mass on the borders of Ukraine. He could not imagine that they would invade. His Russian wife, who was dying of cancer, replies, “Of course they’ll invade”. This is ...