“the pope doesn’t have to be a great theologian – but he has to be in tune with the zeitgeist”

Follow the Vatican’s journey to appoint the next direct successor of Saint Peter

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa

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The Critic takes the measure of the glittering candidates for the Cambridge Chancellorship

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Ellie Cawthorne Why was the winter of 1641–42 such a pivotal time in British and Irish history? Jonathan Healey In the heart of that winter came one of the most iconic moments in English political his