Catholic Church

‘where would you choose to go on a retreat if you could travel anywhere in the world?” this was the question i was asked recently, a questio...

Bishop Mark Davies

an explosion of hatred and intolerance hit the world this year. from post-brexit britain to america’s trump era, from ethnic cleansing of ro...

Benedict Rogers

it is embarrassing to recall that i didn’t think my grandparents were christians. they were catholics, you see, and so i believed that they ...

Matthew Schmitz

‘the coming of our god, our thoughts must now employ.” these words set the tone for our approach to christmas. the famous advent sermon of s...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols

the reputation of st thomas more has for centuries survived the “shafts of falsehood and of folly”, to borrow a phrase of william cobbett, t...

Simon Caldwell

w hen pope john xxiii called for the second vatican council in 1959, he did not know fully what would be its outcome. he had an instinct, an...

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor

anybody who has had but the slightest involvement with the musical life of his church, be he so high as music director, master of all he sur...

David Oldroyd-Bolt

i first cared about being catholic, not out of any profound love for the person of christ, but out of a profound distaste for my other optio...

Marc Barnes

how does one begin to enter into such a mind as that of joseph ratzinger? how does one enter – more importantly – into such a spirituality, ...

William Oddie

this year, for the first time in the history of the state of israel, christmas day will be a public holiday. this is not the result of a sud...

Jill, Duchess of Hamilton