Catholic Church

Aid to the Church in Need gives £830,000 in emergency money to war-torn Ukraine

“thanks to the help of the world, ukraine resists, and we believe it will survive. here we have been helping the displaced, supplying air-ra...

The material and spiritual vision of Marshall McLuhan

‘i have never been an optimist or a pessimist. i’m an apocalyptic only,” marshall mcluhan said during a 1977 interview. “apocalypse is not g...

Nick Ripatrazone

Female clergy make unity an impossibility

there was a period after the anglican-roman catholic international commission agreement on ministry and ordination had been published – even...

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali

Expanding the Orthodox empire

in 2016, i happened to be in karyes, capital of the monastic republic of mount athos, when vladimir putin swept into the small hilltop in a ...

To follow thee more nearly: being drawn in to the road to Our Lord’s Crucifixion

during lent many of us will pray the 14 stations of the cross, especially on good friday. they are a popular devotion taking us from pontius...

Patrick van der Vorst

The unusual interest of Norfolk’s Catholic Churches

norfolk was known in the middle ages for its great holiness, with streams of pilgrims making their way in particular to bromholm to venerate...

Pope ends impasse over Order of Malta

pope francis has directly intervened to end an impasse between the vatican and the sovereign military order of malta over controversial refo...

Pope pleads for Church to dedicate Ash Wednesday as day of fasting and prayer for peace in Ukraine

pope francis has renewed his appeal for the entire catholic church to dedicate ash wednesday as a day of prayer and fasting for peace in ukr...

Rescusants revisited

an aristocratic catholic friend once told me that his father would refer to a co-religionist landowner as “cousin x”, despite the family con...

Pope and circumstance

on saturday 8 october, the parliament choir have been invited to perform elgar’s the dream of gerontius in san paolo fuori le mura, the papa...