Catholic Church

where would you go? twenty years ago, almost by accident, my husband raymond and i discovered st winefride’s well at holywell. we were drivi...

The Catholic Herald

peace, poverty and betrayal: a new history of british india roderick matthews, £25, 416 pages, hurst london _________ nations are sometimes ...

AN Wilson

joe biden’s election as the second catholic us president has been a reminder of the important influence that catholic leaders today are maki...

The Catholic Herald

with the pandemic keeping so many imprisoned in their own homes for months, perhaps there has never been a better year to consider walking t...

Curtis Williams

for gerard manley hopkins, the wilderness – especially in spring – was his dark, unforgiving city. a place not of pain and suffering but of ...

Nick Ripatrazone

there is a magnificent scene in paolo sorrentino’s the young pope in which pius xiii, played by jude law, sits open-mouthed at a table in th...

Serenhedd James

over the course of a long friendship that began at school, my old pal jacob rees-mogg, member of parliament and roman catholic – though not ...

William Sitwell

several years ago, in the cosy bosom of soho’s academy club, patrick reyntiens the preeminent stained glass artist and devout catholic, stoo...

John Cornwell

at the beginning of lockdown, i spent a lot of time debating with myself – no one else around to take me on – about the spirituality of mass...

Antonia Fraser

the clarendon way runs from the river avon close to salisbury cathedral in wiltshire to the river itchen near winchester cathedral in hampsh...

Michael Hodges