The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in AmericaJAMES M. O’TOOLE(HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 336 PP, £29.95)Tablet bookshop ...

The Marian shrine at Lourdes now has more young people wanting to push wheelchairs around than frail pilgrims to sit in them.

The Israeli government’s plan to expand its military offensive in Gaza met condemnation from Church agencies in the Holy Land ...

A Story ofLove and Connection in 10 SongsJOHN HARRIS(JOHN MURRAY, 272 PP, £16.99)Tablet bookshop price £15.29 • tel 020 7799 ...

A glimpse into the darkest corners of Hugo’s mind through his fantastical ink landscapes, caricatures and bulging sketchbooks is now possible thanks to “Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo ...

Retrograde feels consciously indebted to David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow (1988), a ­previous three-hander set in a Hollywood ...

It has long been the lot of unmarried daughters and gay sons, especially in Catholic Ireland, to care for ageing parents.

A Filipino bishop warned migrant workers against halting their remittances to the Philippines as a form of protest at the Marcos government’s decision to ...

How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth CenturyOWEN HATHERLEY(ALLEN LANE, 608 PP, £35)tablet bookshop ...

What do you do if you’re a ­musical parent with 14 children? The answer – if you’re the Bevans, or have ever seen The Sound ...

I was given The Way of a Pilgrim by a hermit when, like the Russian Pilgrim who narrates the story, I’d asked how it was ...

There is a moment in the latest episode of the (rightly) lauded sci-fi TV series Severance, about people with split ...