Targeting a community at large for the criminal activity of a few is unacceptable.

Over 100,000 people in Britain converted to Islam between 2001-2011, yet it is believed that up to 75 per cent may have since lost their faith. Who are they - and how do they feel about the way of life they embraced then quickly abandoned?

My mother and I both married men from Pakistan. Both marriages ended in divorce, but their circumstances and our attitudes towards them could not have been more different: it is a sign of how much has changed.

Faith is the redemption of solitude.

The atheist community is right to pursue rational, civilised debate, and should be able to do so without being tarred as bigots.

The realm of sex and reproduction in particular is an area where the Vatican needs to improve its approach to its female followers.

It's a shameful fact that Muslims are not only the victims of racial and religious prejudice but purveyors of it, too.

Young women from BME backgrounds are discovering that there's more to hiking than the white middle class stereotype.

"To judge by the tide of uncritical sentimentality which swept over the British press ... you might have thought that the Reformation had never taken place".

Reviewed: Mea Maxima Culpa.

The advice, given to MPs today, also refutes suggestions that unwilling clergy might be forced by human rights law to marry same-sex couples.

History may well be kinder to Joseph Ratzinger than his contemporary critics.

It might not look the same as in the US, but the UK still has a strong historic link between religious and moral conservatism and Conservative politics, Nelson Jones argues.

But even a defeat can be said to advance campaign groups' narrative that Christians are being "marginalised" by militant secularism.