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Featured Articles
How I discovered the Latin Mass
What began in bewilderment and reluctance led, over time, to a profound rediscovery of the Traditional Latin Mass
Eduard Habsburg
Featured Articles
Catholicism and multiculturism
Pentecost did not erase the distinction between peoples, but united nations through Christ while preserving their integrity
Patrick Neve
Featured Articles
Leo’s first year: through the eyes of the cardinals
One year after his election, Pope Leo XIV is still revealing the shape of his pontificate as the cardinals who chose him reflect on his leadership, priorities and pursuit of unity
Michael Haynes
Featured Articles
Can Syria’s Christians survive under al-Sharaa?
Syria’s diminished Christian community faces an uncertain future as the country attempts to rebuild after civil war
John Pontifex
Featured Articles
Speaking in tongues: it’s not what you think
Patristic sources, Jewish liturgy, and Scripture point towards an understanding of ‘tongues’ very different from modern assumptions
Philip Blosser
Featured Articles
Stand out or fade away
New research suggests Catholicism in Britain will endure not by blending in, but by embracing clear and confident forms of identity
Joseph Shaw
Columns
The fire that remakes
The Church’s great mystics understood that the Holy Spirit does not preserve complacency, but breaks open the soul in order to renew it
Gavin Ashenden
Columns
In Yeats’s bee-loud glade
In the hives of rural Galway, one beekeeper has found a living lesson in providence, stewardship and the quiet wisdom of the natural order
Declan J. Ganley
Columns
Punk at 50: freedom, rebellion and the void
The fury of punk exposed the decay of post-war Britain, yet the movement left behind a cultural void it could not fill
Ruadhan Jones
Columns
The Christian duty to be less informed
In an age of viral outrage, manipulated clips and endless commentary, Christians should resist both convenient falsehoods and the compulsion to know everything
Luke Collins
Columns
The charismatic movement: the good, the bad and the ugly
A personal and historical reflection on the charismatic movement’s promise, its excesses and its enduring spiritual appeal
Fr Dwight Longenecker
Columns
America’s Declaration and the paradox of unalienable rights
The moral paradoxes at the heart of the American founding continue to shape debates over liberty, equality and the limits of liberal individualism
Ken Craycraft
Featured Articles
An English patrimony
What began as a bold and uncertain experiment has become a distinctive expression of Catholic life rooted in English spiritual and cultural tradition
Fr Mark Elliott Smith
Life
Why you should go on retreat
From St Ignatius Loyola to Mother Teresa, the saints understood retreat not as escape, but as the place where vocation becomes clear
Jack Valero
Life
Courage in the age of cancel culture
Pentecost reminds us that Christian witness is not about winning arguments, but about speaking with clarity, love and freedom from fear
Delphine Chui
Life
The dangers of performative faith
The growth of Catholic media has opened new paths to conversion, but the deepest witness to Christ still comes through lives transformed from within
Noelle Mering
Life
Lola Salem on the domestic Upper Room
In an age of fragmentation and utility, how families might recover the older tradition of forming minds and souls at home
Lola Salem
Soul
The Spirit descends like fire
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from Heaven." Do you perceive the type? What is this Pentecost?
St John Chrysostom
Soul
How Pentecost completes the work of salvation
Pentecost is not an appendix to Easter but the culmination of Christ’s saving work, drawing believers into his divine life through the Holy Spirit
R. Jared Staudt
Soul
The forgotten God
The feast of Pentecost calls Christians to renew their devotion to the Holy Spirit and to draw upon His gifts in daily life
Dom Alcuin Reid
Soul
The neglected feast
Pentecost was once among the Church’s greatest feasts, crowned with an octave and Vigil that kept alive the memory of the Holy Ghost
David Hahn
Soul
The delightful wisdom of Winnie-the-Pooh
Revisiting Winnie-the-Pooh as an adult reveals a work full of wit, warmth and spiritual insight, and a timely antidote to modern anxiety
Clement Harrold
Soul
Why Catholics cannot share Communion with Anglicans
A reader is troubled after a friend is refused Communion at Mass, prompting a reflection on unity, belief and the Eucharist
The Herald Chaplain
Culture
El Greco and the true transformation of beauty
The elongated figures of El Greco’s Pentecost reflect a deeply Christian vision of the body transformed not by cosmetics or discipline, but by the life of the Spirit
Fr Gavan Jennings
Culture
Rivalry and revelation at the Palazzo Barberini
In the setting of a Baroque palace built on rivalry, a new exhibition traces Bernini’s rise under Urban VIII, though not without notable omissions
Daniel Beurthe
Culture
Twilight of the Anglican establishment
Alan Don’s witty and revealing private journals illuminate the ceremonial, politics and personalities that shaped Anglican public Christianity between the wars and beyond
Robin Ward
Culture
When good girls go sad
Freya India argues that social media and consumer culture have hollowed out young women’s inner lives, while leaving open the deeper question of what might restore them
Georgia Gilholy
Culture
Wedding-day nightmare dressed as black comedy
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a glamorous Manhattan couple whose wedding preparations spiral into psychological chaos after one shocking confession
Julia Hamilton
Culture
Death in Algiers
François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’s The Stranger captures the novel’s moral ambiguity while gently widening its perspective
Andrew Cusack
Culture
Why sacred music belongs in the liturgy, not the concert hall
The St Birinus Festival at Dorchester Abbey seeks to restore sacred music to the liturgical setting for which it was composed
Dominic Bevan
Culture
Secrecy and fear in a fallen fellowship
Netflix’s Unchosen explores the fear, secrecy and hidden brokenness that can flourish inside tightly controlled communities and society writ large
Daniel Turner
Life
In praise of the married man
David Hahn makes the case for the married man, arguing that matrimony offers both the adventure and stability modern men are told it cannot
David Hahn
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