The three stories contained in Matthew Sweet’s Bookish (Quercus, £20; Tablet price £18) are all beautifully crafted murder ...

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The 33rd President of the US drops two unprecedented bombs on Japan, making a biblical reference, and then hints that nuclear ...

A crowd attacked two priests and a catechist in eastern India, accusing them of perpetrating forced conversions.

Kingsley Amis’ views on drink, aired wittily and sometimes tetchily in three small books, are entertaining to read but ...

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There is no theological topic that has aroused more heated feelings than the virginity of Jesus’ mother, so out of cowardice ...

When I walked into the Sacro Convento Library in Assisi holding a white cane and asking to handle some of their most precious ...

Founded in 1840, The Tablet is the leading independent English-language Catholic weekly, celebrated for great writing, astute ...

Poverty Among Asylum Seekers in the UK, states that 91 per cent of asylum seekers questioned cannot afford enough food.

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John Bell of the Iona Community was the keynote speaker. In his talk, “At Odds with the Culture of Contentment”, he suggested ...