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The pilgrimage of a lifetime
the ways in which we use the word pilgrimage have changed so much during my lifetime. and yet, i realise increasingly, the core of what it a...
Peter Stanford
Anya Hindmarch, an honorary Catholic?
full and fair disclosure: i am not catholic. but i did spend seven years at a catholic convent wanting to be part of the club. being the out...
Anya Hindmarch
In cheeses we trust
“don’t pick your nose.” “i wasn’t picking my nose, i was scratching.” “you was picking it, while you was talking to that lady.” so busy are ...
Anthony Cazalet
Reform of penal law rejects E&W bishops' request for language change
-- rome -- the vatican rolled out a reform of its penal sanctions on tuesday. at a press conference in the press office of the holy see, sen...
Christopher Altieri
Unidentified ecclesiastical objects
anglican (and some catholic) friends usually regard post-war catholic churches with a degree of horror. the catholic church in this country ...
Michael Hodges
Let's get physical
since march 2020, i and many of the other denizens of east oxford have become intimately acquainted with the trees of aston’s eyot, a former...
Serenhedd James
On Pilgrimage with Mark Hix
where would you go? a few years ago i was due to go to southern india. we’d planned to stay somewhere quite remote that you could onl...
The Catholic Herald
Christianity and all that
the treasures of english churches: witnesses to the history of a nation, by matthew byrne shire publications, £20, 160 pages and did those f...
Harry Mount
Michael Courtney – the man who could have been pope
it was the evening of monday 29 december, 2003. a car carrying the yellow and white vatican flag was travelling towards bujumbura, the capit...
Bill Colegrave
Who wants to live forever anyway?
have you seen correggio’s assumption of the virgin ? it’s horrifying. the feast of the ascension was celebrated last month and idle c...
Constance Watson
Peter Ainsworth – a heritage hero
the death of peter ainsworth in april this year was a great loss to the heritage sector in england. peter had given over 30 years of commitm...
Peter Aiers
Sacred flames
the time of the summer solstice, of greatest light and greenery, has always been one of the naturally numinous points of the year for humans...
Ronald Hutton
Big top, small lives
circus of wonders by elizabeth macneal picador, £14.99, 384 pages ________ in a quiet coastal village in 1866, nell spends her days picking ...
Violet Hudson
A home without a heart
in 1956 the writer evelyn waugh bought a handsome house in the shadow of the quantock hills for £7,500. made of red sandstone, like the red ...
Sophia Waugh
Preparation for life: Teaching English in the Catholic Way
teacher jennifer kirmes (top-c) works with students attempting to "untie" themselves without releasing hands, during part of science class a...
Nick Ripatrazone
Steve Skojec's Traditionalist Disillusion
the last straw for steve skojec was an fssp priest telling him that his son couldn’t make his first communion, and his soon-to-be-born son w...
Steven D. Greydanus
Pope Francis orders investigation of Cologne Archdiocese
pope francis has called on cardinal anders arborelius of stockholm and bishop johannes van den hende of rotterdam to undertake an apostolic ...
Tommaso Pozzi
Cardinal Bo: Attack on Sacred Heart Church ‘a great humanitarian tragedy’
“peace is possible; peace is the only way,” writes burmese cardinal charles bo, in an open letter following an attack on a catholic church i...
Staff Reporter
Pope Francis greets Auschwitz survivor at General Audience
pope francis greets auschwitz-birkenau survivor lidia maksymowicz at the weekly general audience on 26 may 2021 (image © vatican media) &nbs...
Staff Reporter
Synodality can work ... if leadership lets it
the mechanism of the salisbury cathedral clock shortly after its restoration, july 1956. (folb/topical press agency/hulton archive/getty ima...
Charles Collins
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