Columns

Viral posts from European football fans travelling across America have struck a chord with many Americans by highlighting the beauty, freedom and diversity they sometimes take for granted

Jacqueline O'Hara

Fr Armand de Malleray’s ‘Painting Reality’ invites readers to look beyond aesthetics and history to recover the theological meaning embedded within sacred art

Jan C. Bentz

The Vatican’s new communications prefect has reignited a debate that touches on evangelisation, Jewish-Christian relations and the mystery of salvation

Fr Dwight Longenecker

In an age of convenience and consumption, the quiet discipline of labour offers a path towards service, sacrifice and human flourishing

Dominic Perrem

As communities weaken and families become more isolated, parents are increasingly asked to carry burdens that were once shared across a wider social world

Delphine Chui

The Church’s calendar reveals June as a month rich in saints, solemnities and reminders of God’s plan for human flourishing

Clement Harrold

The Church’s great mystics understood that the Holy Spirit does not preserve complacency, but breaks open the soul in order to renew it

Gavin Ashenden

In an age of viral outrage, manipulated clips and endless commentary, Christians should resist both convenient falsehoods and the compulsion to know everything

Luke Collins

The fury of punk exposed the decay of post-war Britain, yet the movement left behind a cultural void it could not fill

Ruadhan Jones

The contrast between the Tower of Babel and Pentecost offers a powerful lesson about the dangers of pride and the transformative power of the Holy Spirit

Jacqueline O'Hara