Catholic Church

after the accession of elizabeth i in 1558, catholics were forced out of the ancient parish churches of england. by act of parliament, catho...

John Martin Robinson and Michael Hodges

this year, christmas midnight mass will mark exactly 900 years since st norbert and his first followers made their vows at midnight mass in ...

Abbott Hugh Allan

it was when i first saw uncle john harman’s black trousers protruding under father christmas’s scarlet robe that my world changed. up till t...

Antonia Fraser

we are winding up another year overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic, and as we do so we are accompanied by hymns and carols heralding th...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

when a young christian girl from pakistan called farah shaheen was abducted from her home, not in their worst nightmares could her family im...

John Pontifex

confiteor: i rather enjoyed christmas 2020. having agreed with my parents that, in the context of a global pandemic, driving to wales and ba...

Serenhedd James

i have recently been reading david spiegelhalter and anthony masters’  covid by numbers: making sense of the pandemic with data  (...

Stephen Bullivant

there are all sorts of reasons why we choose the mass we usually go to: maybe it’s the music, or the lack of it, or the bells and smells, or...

Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth

hearing i was planning a piece on the church’s penchant for puddings, dante, my naughty godson, immediately dived into google, determined to...

Anthony Cazalet

within a few minutes of meeting cardinal pell at the travellers club in pall mall, he makes a revealing comment about the proposed title of ...

William Cash