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June 12, 2023

Walking in harmony on the Camino de Santiago

June 12, 2023

The Camino to Santiago tends to bring out the best in those who tackle it, writes Wilf Jones. For most people, putting one foot in front of the other is something they take for granted. My iPhone tells me that five friends and I did so about 204,000 times each during Easter week this year,

Hexham and Newcastle bishop showed poor leadership and put children at risk, report finds

June 12, 2023

The Catholic Church’s child protection agency has severely criticised the former Bishop of Hexham for putting children at risk by promoting a priest who had “displayed a clear pattern of grooming behaviour over the years”. Bishop Robert Byrne, who resigned in December after just three years and almost a decade before his retirement age, was

France honours Catholic ‘backpack hero’ who fought off knife attacker

June 12, 2023

France is honouring a Catholic backpacker as a “hero” after he fought off a man attacking children with a knife in a playground. The frenzy of stabbings in the lakeside park in the Alpine town of Annecy left four children aged between 22 months and three years – including a British girl called “Ettie” –