Piers Paul Read

“The Devil is more intelligent than mere mortals,” Pope Francis told us recently. He is “a real person armed with dark powers … He...

Anatole France, the Nobel Prize-winning French novelist, observed that “any woman who finds herself alone with a man, thinks him an idiot if he...

A recently formed political party, Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, or AfD), did well in the last month’s elections in Germany. It gained...

Fr Mark Vickers, our parish priest at the Holy Ghost and St Stephen in west London, is also an author and has recently published...

A glittering party was given last Saturday by Sabrina Stoppard in the Chelsea Physic Garden to celebrate the 80th birthday of her husband Tom....

I once met Theresa May at a seminar organised by the think tank Politeia on a subject that I cannot now remember. There were...

Of the dozen or so sites where the Church accepts that Mary, the Mother of God, has appeared in visions, I have been to...

It is an irony that a school named after St Paul should have an ethos that so radically contradicts the Apostle’s views on the...