Catholic Church

pope francis will face many challenges in 2023 – but it’s a year that also happens to be filled with significant anniversaries, including th...

Diana Montagna

allow me to indulge in a public confession: of all the tenets of catholicism, the one i struggle with the most is forgiveness. we are called...

Nick Ripatrazone

on 1 april 1957, the bbc current affairs programme panorama presented a three-minute documentary item showing a swiss family, in t...

Jeremy Haselock

it was the morning of 19 april 2005, and i was in north carolina. i was a senior at duke divinity school and was in duke chapel with my spir...

Matthew Olver

english victorian churches: architecture, faith and revival james stevens curl john hudson publishing, £50, 240 pages this handsome little b...

Michael Hodges

with due deference to the originator of the latest foray in to the world of father brown, i doubt many devotees of gk chesterton’s clerical ...

Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman

before the 16th century, christians generally assumed that the star of bethlehem must have been some kind of astrological miracle. for insta...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

it was thursday 18 august, 2005, and we were on the banks of the rhine in cologne. hand in hand, my friend and i had run, squealing, back an...

Margaret Nicholson

as the latest pew research census has shown that the catholic church is haemorrhaging people to pentecostalism in south america, it has to p...

Gavin Ashenden

snow really does bring out my inner imp. i’ve known it in wales, in london, in oxford, in the united states – the impulse to mischief has al...

Serenhedd James