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The return of the patron
A young company seeks to restore the ancient relationship between artist and patron, inviting ordinary people to commission works of lasting beauty
Jan C. Bentz
Death in the Catholic imagination
David Hahn reflects on the Catholic understanding of death, contrasting it with a sanitised secular view that pays little attention to its eternal consequences
David Hahn
How the Church keeps the sacred days of Holy Week
From Palm Sunday to the Easter Vigil, the Church’s liturgy leads the faithful step by step through Christ’s Passion, death and resurrection
Clement Harrold
Sacramental imagination and the recovery of enchantment
Modernity claims to have stripped the world of meaning, but Tolkien offers a vision in which reality remains charged with significance
Jan C. Bentz
Pope Leo signals a shift on the Traditional Mass
Without issuing a formal text, Pope Leo appears to encourage practical accommodation for those attached to the older liturgy
Joseph Shaw
Why Catholics should take the dating crisis seriously
Many young adults still desire marriage, but weakened social structures, low confidence and digital habits have made dating far harder than older generations often realise
Delphine Chui
Chartres shows why Mary matters
A pilgrimage to Chartres and a visit to the Colosseum illuminate the moral gulf between Christian and pagan civilisation, and the enduring power of Marian devotion
Clement Harrold
America’s legal pushback against transgender ideology
Court rulings, malpractice lawsuits and new legislation are beginning to challenge the legal foundations of transgender policy in the United States
Ken Craycraft
“Ballet can elevate body and soul together”
In this interview, Claire Kretzschmar discusses perfection, brokenness and the power of classical ballet to restore the sacred imagination
Jan C. Bentz
Finding God in the age of the algorithm
Young adults are encountering Christianity through digital platforms, raising both new opportunities and new challenges for the Church
Delphine Chui
Newman: Patron saint of the disappointed
From Oxford to Dublin, Newman knew loss, frustration and public defeat, and learned to trust that God wastes nothing
Clement Harrold
Rediscovering Ida Friederike Görres: the Catholic thinker the sexual revolution forgot
Jan C Bentz interviews translator Jennifer S Bryson about the German writer who foresaw the cultural battle over marriage before the upheavals of the 1960s
Jan C. Bentz
The return of silence in an age of noise
As modern life grows louder and more distracted, young people are discovering that the Church’s ancient understanding of silence offers a deeper response than digital detox
Delphine Chui
The theology of being a godparent
Scripture, tradition and canon law reveal that godparents are not merely ceremonial figures but guardians of a child’s life in the Faith
Clement Harrold
Aquinas and the question of tyrannicide
The death of Ayatollah Khamenei recalls an ancient moral dilemma that St Thomas Aquinas approaches with caution and weight
Jan C. Bentz
Women’s magazines are narrowing the space for dissent
By replacing debate with rigid conformity, women’s magazines risk failing the very constituency they claim to serve
Delphine Chui
Five lessons on Catholic fatherhood I learned from my Dad
Five lessons on Catholic fatherhood I learned from my Dad
David Hahn
Agatha Christie and the reality of sin
At the heart of the mystery writer’s anthropology lies the conviction that sin is a cancer to which none of us is wholly immune
Clement Harrold
Perceiving God in creation: the angel-filled world of Francis Thompson
Through poetry shaped by suffering, Francis Thompson urges us to recover the vision of a world still radiant with God’s presence
Joseph Shaw
Jacob Rees-Mogg: why institutions still matter
In conversation with the Catholic Herald, Sir Jacob reflects on monarchy, Brexit, NATO and the papacy, arguing that institutions – not personalities – are the true guardians of liberty and faith
Jan C. Bentz
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