Catholic Church

the second catholic relief act of 1791 marked the start of a century-plus of the building of  a series of interesting catholic chu...

Michael Hodges

there is a huge chestnut tree 50 yards from my study. chestnut trees make a lot of mess – shedding their conkers, spiky shells and leaves th...

charlie-hart

a campaign is to be launched to canonise a monk who dedicated his life to taking disabled people to lourdes. a mass celebrated at our lady o...

Simon Caldwell

pope francis has called for solutions to the european migrant crisis that last week cost the lives of 27 people in the english channel. the ...

Staff Reporter

elgar’s 1900 midlands setting of st john henry newman’s the dream of gerontius is a rich starting point for delving into english catholic cu...

Joanna-Bullivant

the birth of the christ child is an occasion to reflect on other babies and on life in the womb that precedes birth. the most dispiriting de...

The Catholic Herald

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

i have recently been reading david spiegelhalter and anthony masters’ covid by numbers: making sense of the pandemic with data (pelican, 202...

Stephen Bullivant

'these islands are really heavenly when the weather allows,” wrote lawrence durrell about rhodes in 1946 when he was stationed in the dodeca...

William Cash

catholics in england and wales are to be asked to find homes for thousands of afghanistan refugees fleeing the taliban. parishes will be req...

Simon Caldwell