Culture

the poet elizabeth jennings reviews a book of reminiscences about c. s. lewis, whom she heard lecture when a student at st anne's college. t...

FromtheArchives

apparently they never give up. some bishops want “to see the extraordinary form of the roman rite explicitly suppressed, or subject to furth...

David Mills

canon law is dinner-party talk once more. in households up and down the country, catholic and non-catholic alike, the canonical form of marr...

David Cowan

i wonder whether we should really be lamenting the latest delay of so-called freedom day quite so much. confusingly, under new rules there w...

Constance Watson

mass during the pandemic has generally been more old than new rite, extraordinary rather than ordinary.  it turns out that many modern ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg

like the emperor nero, the british museum knows how to put on a show. that hangar of a space bearing the sainsbury name can sometimes overwh...

Lucien de Guise

very few secret catholic chapels from the 16th century have been identified in england – fewer, indeed, than the “priest holes’”(properly ca...

Francis Young and Brigitte Webster

goodness knows what non-catholics, let alone atheists, must make of it all when visiting seville. you can’t move in the capital of southern ...

James Jeffrey

the arab conquests by justin marozzi apollo, £18.99, 256 pages  between 634 and 750 ad, arabs created an empire larger than those of al...

Philip Mansel

when i was a novice, our novice master told us that, while god has promised that the church will endure until the end of time, no such promi...

Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth