Culture

"christmas won’t be christmas without any presents", grumbled jo, lying on the rug.” the opening of little women has had children nodding in...

Sophia Waugh

by any standards, the news that michael nazir-ali had been received into the catholic faith is stunning. the former church of england bishop...

Jonathan Petre

'i will honour christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” what a striking promise scrooge makes to the spirit of christmas yet...

Niall Gooch

after the accession of elizabeth i in 1558, catholics were forced out of the ancient parish churches of england. by act of parliament, catho...

John Martin Robinson and Michael Hodges

this year, christmas midnight mass will mark exactly 900 years since st norbert and his first followers made their vows at midnight mass in ...

Abbott Hugh Allan

a child is born for us, and a son is given to us (isaiah 9:5) the mass of christmas day begins with these joyful words of isaiah’s...

Bishop Mark Davies

we are winding up another year overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic, and as we do so we are accompanied by hymns and carols heralding th...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

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

Stephen Bullivant

last year, my husband and i decided it would be best to stay in london and celebrate christmas at home. it was our daughter lily’s first chr...

lara prendergast

last month, after 13 short years, i deleted my facebook account. the site, at last, has lost any of the allure it once had (more on that lat...

Constance Watson