Tibet, sausages and masturbating mice – as Banned Book Week begins, Anne Rooney explores the hidden restrictions on what your children read
Feminist icon, anti-Catholic fabrication – or just a woman battling in a man’s world? Sally Feldman uncovers the mysteries of Pope Joan
Is forgiveness just for the devout? asks Eve Garrad
Butchery is always a messy business, but is religiously inspired ritual slaughter really worse than other methods? Physiologist Harold Hillman dissects the evidence
Blasphemer, failure, hypocrite, comedian – Stewart Lee tells Caspar Melville why he’s so offensive
Philosopher Mary Warnock tells Laurie Taylor why religion and politics shouldn’t mix
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Kenan Malik debate whether the UK should follow the French
Mired in controversy from Afghanistan to Sudan, humanitarianism itself is in crisis. Susie Linfield surveys the battlefield
When religious beliefs conflict with professional duties how do we decide what's fair? We asked Richard Rowson, the man who wrote the rules
Child abuse is far from the only crime the Vatican has to admit. Just look at its record in Africa, says Richard Wilson