The world was his parish

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

I am 15 years old when I meet my special friend. I leave my concrete suburb, overflowing with a rage that longs to be soothed, but I don’t know how. My bike is my outlet, my escape route, and I ride t

FROM LORCA: THE DRAWINGS BY HELEN OPPENHEIMER (1987) ...

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

FATHER SANJOY KUMAR’S favourite parable was the parable of the sower. In fact, if God hadn’t called him to a different sort of harvest, he would have had his very own fields to plough, sow and reap at

Britain’s wild places are under pressure – but cycling gives us rare access to their beauty and fragility. Sophie Pavelle explores what’s at stake from the saddle