In July 1856, 19-year-old newlywed Mary Ann Patten and her husband, master mariner Joshua, embarked on the merchant clipper, ...
Founded in 1840, The Tablet is the leading independent English-language Catholic weekly, celebrated for great writing, astute ...
The Catholic Church in Catalonia concluded a major agreement with the regional government to loan Church-owned properties and ...
Thomas Hardy’s poem, “The Walk”, sparely contrasts a walk alone while his wife waited at home and a walk alone after her death. It is a good choice for a ...
A few days before I travel to Oxford to meet New Testament scholar Tom Wright, I receive a WhatsApp message from my sister, a ...
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference called on the country’s parliament to hasten the passage of legislation curtailing LGBT rights.
As more tales of witchcraft emerge and rolling case theories evaporate into sea mist, our rational medic is forced to contemplate the unthinkable. And – such ...
In 1953, William Golding was a middle-aged schoolteacher living in a council flat in Salisbury when he submitted a typescript of what would become Lord of the ...
Founded in 1840, The Tablet is the leading independent English-language Catholic weekly, celebrated for great writing, astute analysis, brilliant arts and books reviews and trustworthy reporting from ...
Kenneth Williams (1926-1988), the subject of his inspired day-long showcase, would have reached his one hundredth birthday last week. I came upon him once as ...
It’s a chilly afternoon in the Borders, with icing-sugar snow sprinkled on the Pentland Hills outside the window, and I’m sitting by a log fire singing Psalm ...
Cash is no longer king. The financial landscape is shifting at a breakneck pace. In 2008, cash accounted for more than 60 per cent of transactions; by 2023, ...