I have never chosen anything in my life.” At 71, conductor Masaaki Suzuki is a masterclass in self-deprecating politeness.

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Muriel Spark, then a 36-year-old divorcee recovering from a mental breakdown, was received into the Roman Catholic Church at ...

It should not come as a surprise that a decade or more in the cloister leaves the monk or nun a changed human being. This is ...

I was surprised by the reaction when I tweeted a detail of a painting from the Siena exhibition at the National Gallery, ...

And if in a democracy those forces go forth with a licence to kill, does the bloodstain spread to the whole population? To ...

Researchers published a list naming 140 priests and male Religious who served in Canada’s “residential schools” for ...

Wednesday 4 June, marks the 500th anniversary of the Bayham Abbey Uprising, where more than 100 men launched a violent ...

Conditions in Gaza have reached “catastrophic levels”, according the regional director of a papal agency operating in the ...

Members of the 2025 Conference of Religious England and Wales also explored priorities such as synodal leadership at their ...