15+ min ago  (819+ words) Baroness Amos has published the final report of the Independent National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, which concludes that the "maternity and neonatal system is not set up to deliver consistently safe, high-quality and compassionate care. The report makes its own…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago  (582+ words) Bishop-elect Stephen Wang in the garden of the Venerable English College, Rome. Fr Wang was born in London in 1966 and grew up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. He started his priestly formation after a degree in theology at Cambridge University, and was…...

14+ hour, 22+ min ago  (96+ words) The United States may have accrued unsurpassed military and economic power in those 250 years, but it was not military and economic power that the signatories of the Declaration wanted " that still lay with the British Empire " but freedom and democracy,…...

12+ hour, 12+ min ago  (145+ words) The Tablet Theatre: Blazing and Brilliant Hip-hop heroics: Susannah Fielding (Roxane) and Adrian Lester (Cyrano). The text echoes hip-hop and maximises the word games in the play, including Cyrano and Roxane conducting conversations in words beginning with a single letter....

13+ hour, 17+ min ago  (187+ words) The Tablet A first edition of "The Man Who Was Thursday, signed by the author, went for "1, 600 The installation was called (this also is but) A striving after wind by Gabriella Gormley, and by chance the artist was on hand…...

13+ hour, 52+ min ago  (88+ words) The Tablet Colour and light abound in the newly restored Salford Cathedral. Salford in Greater Manchester has become a byword for urban regeneration, with the city experiencing a growth in population unmatched anywhere in the north of England. Thousands of…...

14+ hour, 22+ min ago  (131+ words) The Tablet Belief and liberty " a doublethink nation The United States of America is hard to get one's head around in various ways. Its 250th birthday underlines its monumental oddity, its explosive elusiveness. I have struggled in particular to make sense…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (494+ words) The Tablet The ironists in the College of Cardinals enjoyed the fourth session of the extraordinary consistory. Their discussion of synodality was the only session not conducted in the small-group Conversations in the Spirit format employed throughout the Synod on…...

1+ day, 57+ min ago  (469+ words) HOUSE OF LORDS, ROGER HARRIS "I'm delighted to have been appointed as Minister for Faith, representing the interests of our vast and diverse faith and belief communities and ensuring their voices continue to be heard, celebrated and protected," said Lord…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (58+ words) Pope Leo addresses cardinals last week at the extraordinary consistory held in the Vatican Out of communion "the memoir of J. D. Vance "Please hire us: when work becomes a luxury "Credibility of Christian message at stake in efforts for unity, says…...