BEFORE READING The Last Enchanted Places, I had a vague idea of spa towns as places to which characters in Jane Austen novels are dragged against their will ...

THE NINE beloved books that comprise Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiographical Little House in the Big Woods series have become the nearest the United States ...

The incident garnered attention across Texas as parishioners, congressional officials, advocacy organisations and the Diocese ...

Kate O’Brien presents a curious case study in the construction of an Irish literary reputation. Benedict Kiely had no hesitation in deeming her a great ...

The Columbans in Britain have completed a major renewable energy project as part of their long-term commitment to ...

The Archdiocese of Birmingham is implementing locally discerned plans to re-organise its 217 parishes based on the vision of the Synod over a five-year period. A spokesman for the archdiocese ...

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith also published protocols for priests leaving the SSPX to return to full communion with the Catholic Church, requiring that they accept the teachings of the ...

For the first year, which begins in September, there were more than 2000 expressions of interest from would-be doctors for just 40 places. “I think it’s a very significant moment, for the church in ...

Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin has criticised the repudiation of the tradition of welcome and refuge which “marked the greatness of the American dream”. In a homily marking the 250th anniversary ...

Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem has never viewed his role as political. He is not a diplomat in the conventional sense of the term, nor does he claim to replace governments or official ...