The appeal of the Catholic Church to converts goes far beyond aesthetics, says Melanie McDonagh

Author and gardener Charlie Hart explains why he took to the Roman church, with a little help from CS Lewis and a priest friend

Think of the “Second Spring” of English Catholicism and you will probably picture converts such as Cardinal Newman, Ronald Knox and GK Chesterton. Oscar Wilde – who converted on his deathbed in 1900 – is not usually associated with them. But The Happy Prince, a new film about the final years of Wilde’s life directed

Conversion involves trustfulness and self-surrender, not simply impulse

The encyclical, whose 50th anniversary is in July, has a special way of drawing us out of the darkness and towards God

The internet is changing the way people cross the Tiber

She has over 180,000 subscribers

Fr Donald Haggerty has written a book that deserves reading and re-reading