The scalp of St Teresa of Ávila has retained strands of brown hair, according to anthropologists analysing relics of the ...

Caritas organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo expanded their operations in response to the crisis in the east of ...

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop John Sherrington as Archbishop of Liverpool. Bishop Sherrington, an auxiliary in Westminster since 2011, will be the tenth Archbishop of Liverpool, succeeding ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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