
A century from now Catholics are likely to be the country’s largest Christian body. But the priesthood, the Mass and the laity may look startlingly different to today

Cilla’s funeral was always going to have a showbizzy flavour. But it needn’t have watered down Catholic tradition
Michel Houellebecq’s stark warning to Europe’s Catholics
The French novelist’s vision chimes, in some ways, with Benedict XVI’s analysis of individualism and consumerism