And so to midsummer, official season of dreams, drought declar­ations and, most omi­n­ously, Yellow Book open gardens. Right ...

When the children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza reported to government this week that large numbers of children are ...

Some of the approaches to doors are lovely – the gate, if there is one, opens easily, the path to the door is not overgrown ...

The pandemic was a watershed in the arts: the BC/AD of funding, programming, planning – of survival, even. The BBC Proms are ...

We have produced a society and a culture in which it is impossible to say “I am unhappy”. Instead, we say we have “mental ...

There’s been a lot of talk about tears this week, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer was caught on camera welling up during ...

Theresa”, a short story by Mary Beckett, is one of the most startling things in Irish literature. Not because of any formal or linguistic daring (Beckett’s ...

Rome’s Church of Santa Maria del Popolo is best-known today for its cache of Caravaggios. But in March 1256, long before the Caravaggios arrived, Pope ...

It’s just over 20 years since I saw an ad in the Evening Standard: “Catholic prison charity seeks director.” My curiosity about Catholicism had been piqued by ...

Pope Leo said the world is “burning both from global warming and from armed conflicts” as he celebrated the first “Mass for ...

Is bothar currach é an saol, fairsing do dhaoine áirithe agus cúag do dhaoine eile” St. Columbanus wrote in his fifth sermon, ...

On 30 June, Fr Héctor Alejandro Pérez was shot in the arm, chest and stomach by two men on motorcycles in the south-eastern ...