Culture

full and fair disclosure: i am not catholic. but i did spend seven years at a catholic convent wanting to be part of the club. being the out...

Anya Hindmarch

“don’t pick your nose.” “i wasn’t picking my nose, i was scratching.” “you was picking it, while you was talking to that lady.” so busy are ...

Anthony Cazalet

-- rome -- the vatican rolled out a reform of its penal sanctions on tuesday. at a press conference in the press office of the holy see, sen...

Christopher Altieri

since march 2020, i and many of the other denizens of east oxford have become intimately acquainted with the trees of aston’s eyot, a former...

Serenhedd James

where would you go?   a few years ago i was due to go to southern india. we’d planned to stay somewhere quite remote that you could onl...

The Catholic Herald

the treasures of english churches: witnesses to the history of a nation, by matthew byrne shire publications, £20, 160 pages and did those f...

Harry Mount

have you seen correggio’s assumption of the virgin ? it’s horrifying.   the feast of the ascension was celebrated last month and idle c...

Constance Watson

the death of peter ainsworth in april this year was a great loss to the heritage sector in england. peter had given over 30 years of commitm...

Peter Aiers

the time of the summer solstice, of greatest light and greenery, has always been one of the naturally numinous points of the year for humans...

Ronald Hutton

in 1956 the writer evelyn waugh bought a handsome house in the shadow of the quantock hills for £7,500. made of red sandstone, like the red ...

Sophia Waugh