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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A South African bishop appealed for interreligious dialogue across the continent to respond to spiralling violence, particularly jihadist attacks on Christian ...

The Very Reverend Julian Large, the Provost of Brompton Oratory in West London referred in his homily to Fr Ian Vane, who ...

President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina Higgins were among the mourners who attended the funeral along with ...