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Michaelmas 2026

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Features

The politics of angels

James Madison believed perfect beings would have no need of government, but the hierarchy of heaven suggests a very different Christian understanding of authority

Features

Patrick Neve

A spiritual oasis on the Nebraska plains

Bishop James Conley explains how strong schools, priestly vocations and fidelity to Catholic tradition have helped make the Diocese of Lincoln an unusual spiritual stronghold in the American Midwest

Features

Michael Haynes

Home lessons

Drawing on twenty years of his own family’s experience, Joseph Shaw offers some observations for parents considering educating their children at home

Features

Joseph Shaw

Columns

Michael’s question: ‘Who is like God?’

The feast of St Michael confronts the Church with the supernatural reality that modernity has often sought to explain away

Columns

Gavin Ashenden

Reclaiming the institutions

The long march through the institutions succeeded by changing their assumptions from within; Catholics should answer with a patient effort to recover truth, justice and the common good

Columns

Declan J. Ganley

The missionary’s first task is the soul

Blessed Francis Xavier Ford believed the missionary’s primary task was to preach Christ and establish His Church, while leaving local Catholics to transform their own communities

Columns

Ruadhan Jones

Good and evil through Steinbeck’s eyes

Life

Why St Michael’s Lent is a remedy for summer complacency

The disciplines of prayer, mortification and fraternity can remind us that the whole person belongs to Christ

Life

David Hahn

The Irish government’s war on tradwives

After voters rejected constitutional change on women and the home, Ireland’s government has turned its attention to the supposed dangers of the online ‘tradwife’ movement

Life

Maria Steen

Soul

Now are the shades of evening falling upon the earth

St John Henry Newman reflects on the passing of the seasons, the fruits of human labour and their dependence upon the grace of God

Soul

St John Henry Newman

The angelic man

Eight hundred years after the death of St Francis of Assisi, his devotion to the angels offers a key to understanding his prayer, mission and final conformity to Christ

Soul

R. Jared Staudt

The terrifying majesty of the angels

Scripture presents angels not as sentimental ornaments but as mighty servants of God, sent to guide, protect and strengthen us

Soul

David Hahn

Culture

Can we believe our ancestors’ tales of the supernatural?

Malcolm Gaskill’s Worlds of Fear and Wonder asks whether modern scepticism can prevent us from understanding the supernatural experiences of the past

Culture

Melanie McDonagh

What Raphael understood about the Archangel

Raphael’s ‘Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan’ reminds us that the archangel defeats the Devil not through his own strength, but through the power of God

Culture

Fr Gavan Jennings

Depicting God’s messengers

From biblical messengers to Renaissance putti, an exhibition at the Capitoline Museums explores how angels have been represented in Christian art

Culture

Daniel Beurthe

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Current Issue

Features

The politics of angels

A spiritual oasis on the Nebraska plains

Home lessons

Columns

Michael’s question: ‘Who is like God?’

Reclaiming the institutions

The missionary’s first task is the soul

Good and evil through Steinbeck’s eyes

Life

Why St Michael’s Lent is a remedy for summer complacency

The Irish government’s war on tradwives

Soul

Now are the shades of evening falling upon the earth

The angelic man

The terrifying majesty of the angels

Culture

Can we believe our ancestors’ tales of the supernatural?

What Raphael understood about the Archangel

Depicting God’s messengers

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Current Issue

Features

The politics of angels

A spiritual oasis on the Nebraska plains

Home lessons

Columns

Michael’s question: ‘Who is like God?’

Reclaiming the institutions

The missionary’s first task is the soul

Good and evil through Steinbeck’s eyes

Life

Why St Michael’s Lent is a remedy for summer complacency

The Irish government’s war on tradwives

Soul

Now are the shades of evening falling upon the earth

The angelic man

The terrifying majesty of the angels

Culture

Can we believe our ancestors’ tales of the supernatural?

What Raphael understood about the Archangel

Depicting God’s messengers

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How Fulton Sheen shaped the Catholic media landscape

When Cardinal Newman took on the Prime Minister

Looking forward at St Mary’s

The comeback in Catholic education

Champion against the powers of evil

The mysterious ‘Sword’ of the Archangel

Medicine lost sight of the value of human life

Catholics are praying to St Michael again

Dear Father: How can we pass on the Faith to our children?

Can fusionism revive the American Right?

The making of the university

Lives in search of purpose

The sorrow that sounds like Heaven

Finding grace in unexpected places