Three books on film – or two big ones and a little disappointment, as the Carry On team might have put it. Dave Ainsworth’s ...

Gillian Hanna and Mary McCusker in the 1984 Monstrous Regiment production Calamity.

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Carl Gorham, TV comedy writer, has produced three books. All of them called My Life in a Garden – Love, loss and mulch: a ...

The four protagonists are so relentlessly unpleasant that the result is just dull. I’m not sure what to make of Mountainhead, ...

A Portuguese bishop working for the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences faces canonical investigation at the Vatican ...

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

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Pope Leo XIV spoke to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, asking him to make “a gesture that would favour peace”.

A Catholic parish in western Russia was forced to remove an icon of a martyr and a memorial plaque to a bishop both of whom ...

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