Opinion

• Are the Pope's pleas for forgiveness enough to save the Catholic Church?

  After days of speculation, it was during the papal mass in Dublin's Phoenix Park that Pope Francis chose to address growing anger in the Catholic Church.

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  What sowing and reaping means for the Christian

  Waiting for God's timing allows Him to work out His purposes for us in the most wonderful way

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  True repentance: Slow, costly and sometimes impossible

  The Jewish community is currently in the penitential month of Elul, when we recite Selichot, asking G-d for forgiveness.

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  Hothouse Earth: With the world facing a climate change tipping point, how should Christians respond?

  Will this just become one summer among many, each one breaking temperature records – the norm in a world that is one degree warmer than at the start of the industrial revolution and is warming fast?

• Should the UK ban the burqa? Why Boris Johnson is right

  Not much happens in August, news-wise, which in part explains the furore over remarks made by a back-bench MP about burqas.

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  Brittle Britain: what could help the UK right now?

  The long, heavy heat of Britain's summer of 2018 has somehow seemed to fit well with the prevailing emotional and political atmosphere of the nation.

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  Love Island's unlikely lesson: Chastity and faithfulness are back

  Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham have been together since the beginning. What was perhaps more shocking was their lack of membership of the islanders' elite club.

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  When Queer Eye takes us to church

  'It is because of God's amazing grace that we stand here,' declares Tammye.

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  The churches and the aid agencies made the same theological error

  There's a collective failure to grasp something fundamental about theological anthropology.

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  Disability inclusion: Why it's about more than a ramp

  I'm a disabled woman in itinerant ministry. I'm told that I should find any one of those hard, but having the three is just plain greedy.

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  IICSA: What did we learn from George Carey's testimony?

  Lord Carey's testimony to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) yesterday made for depressing listening.

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  Politicians' call to change Northern Ireland's abortion law is deeply misguided

  It is surely fundamentally wrong for politicians who do not even represent Northern Ireland to be seeking to impose their own views on its people.