As we observe the feast of the massacre of the Holy Innocents, our minds turn to the deplorable rate of

Catholics will have been dismayed to read news reports which suggest that the cover-up of sexual abuse by priests goes

Which Christmas are we celebrating this year? In our secularised society, Christmas has long ceased to be mainly the feast

This week we are publishing a review of a book, provocatively titled A Moral Reckoning, by the US Jewish historian

After Bishop Kevin Dowling last year called on the Church to reconsider its absolute ban on the use of condoms

This month has seen the death of the notorious British child killer Myra Hindley, the “Moors murderer” who spent the

Two weeks ago we identified, not for the first time, Zimbabwe’s Muga-be regime as displaying traits of fascism.

It is noteworthy that the recent series of bomb blasts by suspected right-wingers in Soweto and Bronkhorst-spruit should roughly coincide