Maggie Fergusson

How do you envisage a prison library? The one at HMP Wands­worth is commodious, with deep chairs and shelves packed with books to cover the tastes of 1,562

One of America’s most admired and most controversial Catholic priests tells Maggie Fergusson that one gospel story was life-changing for him – and can be for others.

A civil service high-flyer was told he could ascend to the very top in Whitehall and change the world from there. Instead, he decided to accept an offer to lead an organisation devoted to the care of people with learning difficulties / By MAGGIE FERGUSSON

A monk celebrated for communicating monastic wisdom tells Maggie Fergusson that his latest mission is to restore a vital ingredient to our cultural conversation.

In the sixth of our Lent series in which writers look again at a book that brought them light in a time of darkness, The Tablet’s literary editor recalls an unlikely love story of quiet tenderness that refreshed her appetite for life

Despite the strangeness of the past year, the high-profile couple tell Maggie Fergusson they find joy and hope working with schools and prisons and with refugees and others whose lives are largely hidden

The psychoanalyst and writer talks to Maggie Fergusson about the painful inevitability of change, and why religious conversion can be liberating – or suffocating

Maggie Fergusson’s term as a pupil at the elite boys’ school was thrilling and terrifying

Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Mackay Brown were both Catholic converts, shy and tormented by depression, whose poems are filled with delight in Creation. A recently discovered cache of Brown’s notebooks shows how deeply he empathised with Hopkins’ inner struggles

When she learnt that an inquiry commissioned by L’Arche had found that the movement’s founder, Jean Vanier, had engaged in manipulative sexual relationships with several women, a writer and editor who had known Vanier for nearly thirty years was devastated

Barry George was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Jill Dando in 2001. His sister tells Maggie Fergusson how her faith enabled her to survive the trauma