Catholic Church

Britain: Education - an inspector calls

the ofsted head’s latest speech won’t allay the concerns of faith schools "the last thing a chief inspector should be is a crusader.” so sai...

United States: Courtroom drama

is brett kavanaugh the man who will finally bring down roe? "vibrant” is a curious way to describe the catholic community in washington dc. ...

Michael Warren Davis

Central African Republic: An eye for an eye

as a spirit of revenge spreads, the bishops renew their call for peace when a senior priest was shot dead in the central african republic, t...

Jonathan Luxmoore

Armenia: Rioting over a relic

why the lance of longinus is at the centre of a national controversy the armenian apostolic church, part of oriental orthodoxy, was the worl...

Diary: by Harry Mount

why do british men wear socks and jackets during the intense heat? after years of sweating through summer parties, i’ve made a breakthrough ...

When ‘no change’ changed everything

for the philosopher ralph mcinerny, 1968 was “the year the church fell apart”. for peter steinfels, it saw the beginning of “the vietnam war...

Stephen Bullivant

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A date with history

regular readers will know that i keep an eye out for anniversaries, and the coincidence of historical dates. the liturgy itself points us th...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Chapter & Verse: Brideshead re-edited

brideshead revisited , published in 1945, was evelyn waugh’s first explicitly catholic novel. it lost him, he wrote later, “such esteem” as ...

This September, seek a new heart

the days of the eucharistic congress, adoremus, are going to be a time of special grace for the catholic church in england and wales. i urge...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols

The monks who have to be beer snobs

sir alec guinness reminisced in his memoirs about a visit he made to mount st bernard abbey in 1957, a year after his conversion to the cath...