The Israeli government’s plan to expand its military offensive in Gaza met condemnation from Church agencies in the Holy Land ...

The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in AmericaJAMES M. O’TOOLE(HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 336 PP, £29.95)Tablet bookshop ...

A recent YouGov poll in Germany found that while 79 per cent of the population thought Vladimir Putin was “very” or “quite” ...

The Marian shrine at Lourdes now has more young people wanting to push wheelchairs around than frail pilgrims to sit in them.

Retrograde feels consciously indebted to David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow (1988), a ­previous three-hander set in a Hollywood ...

A Story ofLove and Connection in 10 SongsJOHN HARRIS(JOHN MURRAY, 272 PP, £16.99)Tablet bookshop price £15.29 • tel 020 7799 ...

I speak to Jonathan Sumption in the kind of the room I would like to be resurrected in. We’re in the small, elegant study on ...

How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth CenturyOWEN HATHERLEY(ALLEN LANE, 608 PP, £35)tablet bookshop ...

What do you do if you’re a ­musical parent with 14 children? The answer – if you’re the Bevans, or have ever seen The Sound ...

There is a moment in the latest episode of the (rightly) lauded sci-fi TV series Severance, about people with split ...

The Church does not, of course, deny that we are bound to care for those closest to us; Catholic Social Teaching is not ...

Six months before the 2016 presi­dential election, Rodrigo Duterte did the unthinkable in this deeply Catholic country: he ...