How long should we wait before attempting to put the life of any politician in its appropriate context? Can it be done while ...

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

Pope Leo appointed a bishop to a new diocese in China, suppressing two existing dioceses in the process.

Anniversaries are times for looking back. At St Mary’s University in Twickenham they might be forgiven, as they clock up 175 ...

A community of 10 Carmelite nuns from Peru moved to Spain, leaving a deprived quarter of Lima where land-traffickers ...

In 1962 Mother Edmund Mary, superior of the Assumption Order in East Africa, visited Kensington to recruit teachers for a new ...

After more than 25 years of teaching in Catholic schools, I have shyly formed the view that teaching is a vocation, and that ...

It is a weekday afternoon in Cherkasy, a city in central Ukraine on the bank of the Dnieper River, about 200 km south of Kyiv ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company is one of the few theatrical institutions named for and aimed at a single dramatist. But, the ...

Another year or two like this, and farming is ­finished,” my potato-growing neighbour warned. He meant a repeat of incessant ...

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

The weather was glorious and I had tickets to the Ring cycle, Wagner’s masterpiece of musical theatre, four long operas to be ...