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Diary: Back down to Downside
i spend my first flight in years adding tabs into my new bible. somewhere over china, i manage to stick zachariah to matthew which results i...
Jessica Ogilvy Stuart
The fires of Saint John
the custom of lighting bonfires on june 23, the eve of the feast of the nativity of st john the baptist, is one of the most widespread of al...
Ronald Hutton
A Passion Project
i don’t recall too many conversations in my life beginning with the words: “when i was on the cross last night…”. but there was one the othe...
Michael White
Brick-by-brick Civil War thriller
the siege of loyalty house: a civil war story jessie childs bodley head, £25, 336 pages for a place that witnessed the longest and bloodiest...
John Adamson
Catholics join ecumenical celebration of the Millennium of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
the weekend of 14th and 15th may witnessed a historic return of benedictine monks to the site of the abbey of st edmund, bury st edmunds, wh...
Francis Young
Warhol’s Catholic tastes
nick ripatrazone finds the latest series about the artist perfectly depicts the startling paradoxes that guided his life and work the final ...
Nick Ripatrazone
The Herald’s Guide to Retreats
ampleforth abbey ampleforth, yorkshire founded in 1802, ampleforth abbey is home to the largest benedictine community in the uk, who run a s...
Olenka Hamilton
Chaos or Christianity
it was evelyn waugh, writing in a british newspaper, who warned his contemporaries how stark the choice was that faced them. ninety years la...
Gavin Ashenden
Fighting for faith
mark wahlberg’s early-morning routine would shame the divine office of a medieval cistercian monk. he gets up at 2:30am and then spends 15-2...
William Cash
Seeing and believing
from cinema’s earliest days, filmmakers have been attracted to the subject of the bible. the scriptures appealed for a variety of reasons. t...
Matthew Page
Promotion for Bishop of Plymouth as Pope appoints him to two Welsh dioceses
the pope has appointed bishop mark o’toole as archbishop-elect of cardiff and bishop-elect of menevia. a londoner, bishop o’toole has been b...
Simon Caldwell
Russian nuclear orthodoxy
for patriarch kirill nuclear weapons are necessary for salvation, explains mark jenkins sergei shoigu, the russian defence minister, is a pr...
Mark Jenkins
Pope Francis begins Holy Week with call for Easter truce in Ukraine
pope francis has called for an east truce in ukraine. he said on palm sunday 2022 that nothing is impossible for god, who has the power to e...
Hannah Brockhaus
Police to allow priests access to crime scenes following outcry over Sir David Amess murder
revised national guidelines for the college of policing will allow for sacramental access at crime scenes where operationally possible follo...
Staff Reporter
Our Lady of The Windrush - a new icon goes on tour
as i passed through the huge central doors of westminster cathedral one sunny spring afternoon, i was struck by the lingering smell of incen...
Serenhedd James
German cardinal admits blessing gay couples and calls for Church teaching on homosexuality to change
a german cardinal has admitted to blessing couples in same-sex relationships and has called for a change in catholic teaching on homosexuali...
Simon Caldwell
‘A radical expression of faith’
last year was the 500th anniversary of the battle of pamplona, the occasion when a cannonball shattered the leg of a basque gentleman soldie...
Melanie McDonagh
The power of three
it is traditional to accept new catechumens (those being prepared to come into full communion with the roman catholic church) during the eas...
charlie-hart
‘Why I crossed the Tiber’
john goddard see his life as a pilgrimage. it has taken him into anglican orders, first as an anglo-catholic priest and as the anglican bish...
Simon Caldwell
Rock of Ages
stat crux dum volvitur orbis, the carthusians say: the cross is steady while the world turns. in the midst of what a great anglican prayer c...
Niall Gooch
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