‘Choice’ as a criterion will push scientific boundaries

I’m writing this week from St Peter’s Square. It’s Sunday evening and the piazza is calmer now after the immense crowds of this morning’s canonisations. People are wandering around, pausing to photograph the giant portraits of the Church’s new saints hanging from the Basilica. Others are sitting on the steps under the colonnade gazing at…

We must perceive truth in many places

Rome would be prudent to delay any papal trip here

History re-interprets itself, ‘spinning’ what once occurred

Mr Kenny performed quite a turnaround in Rome

Whatever about the crowds, the ceremony will be historic on a number of fronts.

Recalling two great figures of living history