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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Church does not, of course, deny that we are bound to care for those closest to us; Catholic Social Teaching is not ...

I speak to Jonathan Sumption in the kind of the room I would like to be resurrected in. We’re in the small, elegant study on ...

Six months before the 2016 presi­dential election, Rodrigo Duterte did the unthinkable in this deeply Catholic country: he ...

A recent YouGov poll in Germany found that while 79 per cent of the population thought Vladimir Putin was “very” or “quite” ...

Elected with a record-breaking majority last July, Sir Keir Starmer took the advice everyone gives new prime ministers. Do ...