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Andrew Cusack
St Asaph: an elusive Welsh saint
How a disciple of St Mungo gave his name to one of Britain’s smallest cathedral cities
The deadly dangers of untempered passion
Robert Icke’s Romeo and Juliet strips away Romantic myth to reveal Shakespeare’s warning about reckless desire
Saturday Read: Persia’s forgotten Christian queen
Before the rise of Islam, Sasanian Persia sheltered a remarkable Christian world whose memory still lingers in poetry, legend and cinema
How St George became England’s patron saint
Long before modern arguments about identity, St George had already been claimed by England as a saint whose witness stood above blood, region and politics
Why Catholic Emancipation still matters
Daniel O’Connell’s peaceful political revolution transformed constitutional life in Britain and beyond, yet its significance is too often overlooked in our historical memory
The quiet Catholic revival in a Scottish university town
At St Andrews, one of Britain’s oldest universities, a growing number of young people are exploring Catholicism in search of meaning, tradition and transcendence
Professor Jack Scarisbrick: historian of Henry VIII and pro-life pioneer
A leading figure in Catholic revisionist history and an unflinching advocate for vulnerable pregnant women, Scarisbrick brought intellectual seriousness to both scholarship and civic life
The art of the slow papacy
Pope Leo XIV’s first year has brought no revolutions, but a shift in mood. Stabilisation, rather than spectacle, may prove the foundation of his papacy
‘This fragile little Church’: life among the Hebrew-speaking Catholics of Jerusalem
In the heart of Israel’s Jewish society, a small community of Hebrew-speaking Catholics is preserving the Church’s ancient roots while building bridges with the wider culture
Across the Thames: a new book about Southwark but not much about its Catholics
liberty over london bridge: a history of the people of southwark by margaret willes yale university press, £20, 304 pages the dead are inter...
Argentina: Where did it all go wrong?
few things in the realms of the human psyche can prove quite so traumatising as the loss of a high status once enjoyed. the history of argen...
Will Pope Francis meet Italy's anti-immigration firebrand?
with a popularity rating of 59 per cent and his right-wing lega movement’s poll figures now double the vote it took in last year’s general e...
Once, Christians led the response to socialism and liberalism. Could it happen again?
Christian democracy helped create order in post-war Europe, but has largely surrendered to liberalism. It’s time for a rethink
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