Chapter House

The government announcement that digital ID is to become mandatory by the end of this parliament has provoked an outcry. Could the years ahead cause many of us to draw on a noble, half-forgotten strand of British history which tells of the principled dissenter or conscientious objector?

For teachers and anyone involved in encouraging reading, writing and thinking, it increasingly appears that this isn't a change to the pedagogical paradigm, rather it could herald the end of personality and the interior mental life altogether

Fr Robert Verrill OP celebrates St Francis’s vision of creation which inspired generations of friars to pioneer scientific study.

Simon Tolkien – grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien – reflects on faith, family and the loss of belief that shaped his novels set against the Spanish Civl War and the Church in the 1930s

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is more than a tale of obsession and revenge; it is a theological voyage through sin, grace and redemption.

Bijan Omrani explores how faith shaped the nation’s laws, literature, and culture — tracing the Christian roots of English identity from medieval canon law to Victorian reform, and asking what the Church can still offer modern England.

The Catholic tradition has long treated the question of the death penalty with a gravity that refuses facile softness. The case for capital punishment is not a celebration of bloodshed but a careful attempt to hold mercy and justice together, so that neither devours the other

One of the richest and most powerful men in the world has just completed a series of off-the-record lectures on the Antichrist. The talks set an eerie tone for political and technological developments in the 21st century

Pope Leo should not be blamed for blessing frozen water. What made the outcome unholy rather than holy was the detachment of the chunk of Greenland ice from anything obviously connected to Jesus, at least in the minds of the activists

But Catholics cannot accept that she is the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, since this is to reject Apostolicae Curae and the history of the position

As Catholic Christians, we must understand that our moral and political commitments are not on the right-to-left continuum of liberal political theory

Pope Leo was asked about Cardinal Cupich’s award to the pro-abortionist Senator Dick Durbin. He then used the 'seamless garment' approach to Catholic ethics to link together abortion, immigration and the death penalty

Eric Gill’s Annunciation is the centrepiece of a powerful exhibition at Ditchling Museum, where works of beauty sit uneasily alongside the artist’s crimes.

As he is declared a Doctor of the Church, Newman’s lifelong commitment to education, truth, and the formation of an intelligent laity offers a model for Catholics today.

Better to be called obstinate than to surrender the sacraments. Better to scandalise polite opinion than to mutilate what has been entrusted by God himself. Better to be decried as old-fashioned than to cease to be Catholic

Lucien de Guise reviews ‘Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum’ at the Barbican, a timely and unsettling exhibition exploring fragility, violence, and the human form.

The cost of removing the two-child cap runs into billions; and unlike the grace of God, the resources of the State and its taxpayers are not unlimited

Many Christian men today claim the faith but settle for shallow substitutes, mistaking consumption for communion.

Erika Kirk’s public act of forgiveness brings a message of mercy into a moment of fury.

If God’s will is unchanging, what do our prayers achieve? Fr Richard Ounsworth OP reflects on providence, petition and the mystery of divine action.