Catholic Church

Pope Francis gives red hat to Archbishop Arthur Roche

pope francis said on sunday that he will create 21 new cardinals, including arthur roche, the former bishop of leeds, at a consistory on aug...
CNA Staff

Jerusalem’s Christians deserve better

next month, june, there will be a court hearing in jerusalem to decide an issue of great importance to jerusalem’s christians, who now numbe...
The Catholic Herald

Beware the virtue signallers

douglas murray’s latest book, the war on the west , has catapulted public awareness of the severity of the culture wars into a new gear.&nbs...
Gavin Ashenden

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

Entertaining emperors

the emperors of byzantium kevin lygo thames & hudson, £25, 336 pages it hardly needs saying that any english writer who tackles the hist...
Robin Ward

On pilgrimage with Eamon Duffy

where would you go?  to skellig michael. i went there in 1989 after my mother died and i had become rather agitated about my irish iden...
The Catholic Herald

Catholic places of worship Cornwall

cornwall is liberally endowed with villages recording the euphonious names of early celtic saints – st endellion, st enodoc (“blessed be st ...
Michael Hodges

Conservative but not clericalist

any body that can muster 500 priests and deacons is a force to be reckoned with, and the confraternity of catholic clergy, which does just t...
Gertrude Clarke