A Nigerian court sentenced two commanders of the Ansaru terrorist group to life imprisonment for their role in the abduction ...

IT IS 12 years since the former children’s home in Tuam, County Galway, in the west of Ireland, seized the world’s attention.

I raced through Matthias Jügler’s Mayfly Season (Indigo Press, £12.99; Tablet price £11.69), sensitively translated by Jo ...

The outcome will be a stepped subscription system: a basic service of news, children’s, Wimbledon, Songs of Praise provided free to all and subsidised and different packages. IN MONTY PYTHON’S Life of ...

There was no Ebola within 500 kilometres of us, yet all the news was about Ebola. Almost nobody spoke about what was happening here.” When a Catholic ...

In what frenetic silence, night,You broke off and were quiet!By neither days nor nights can youBe countered or removed.

THE MARITIME charity Stella Maris has criticised the government for failing to protect migrant workers in the UK fishing industry from “inhuman and degrading ...

Andy Burnham’s government faces precisely the same dilemmas that helped to derail his predecessor. Not the least of them is ...

YOU MIGHT EXPECT 76-year-old Cardinal Arthur Roche to look weary and overburdened. As prefect for the Dicastery of Divine ...

Peace begins in the human heart, Fr Michel Abboud, regional superior of the Discalced Carmelites in Lebanon and former ...

Pope Leo prayed for peace in the Holy Land and a resolution to conflicts across the Middle East after recent violence in the ...

Filipino religious superiors called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to address “profoundly moral concerns” affecting the ...