Culture

Time is a gardener's canvas

you may not notice the gradual increase in light, but your birds will. listen for them. at some point in february, when the atmospherics are...

Rowan Williams on his debt to Catholics

growing up in wales in the 1950s, you still couldn’t quite avoid the sense that catholics were exotic and a bit frightening. people of my gr...

Now is the Acceptable Time

if the 21 coptic martyrs of libya are "saints for all christians" -- as pope francis says -- then why not grant permission for their venerat...

Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman

Ash Wednesday: ...et in pulverem reverteris.

this is the day the church puts on ashes to make the beginning of our great season of penitence. traditionally, this sign of penitence is he...

Winter Diary: Light and heat

i go to check the beehive and close it up for winter; put up a zinc mouse guard, a strap around the hive to prevent the roof blowing off. th...

Trump Impeachment Trial: Defense Rests

image: bruce castor, lawyer for former president donald trump, departs on the fourth day of the senate impeachment trials for former preside...

RIP Lord Belhaven – An Officer and Gentleman

my father robin, lord belhaven and stenton, died on december 2 last year. he would have been 94 in february. “he had a good innings,” people...

Olenka Hamilton

Pope Francis: Christian prayer instills ‘invincible hope’ in the human heart

vatican city, feb 10, 2021 / 04:30 am mt ( cna ) .- pope francis said on wednesday that prayer can fortify us as we face the challenges of d...

Catholic News Agency

The Pro-Life Movement Does Not Go Cheap

as a fellow parent of a disabled adult child, i deeply empathize with roberto rivera’s anguished frustration over the lack of services for t...

Here be Dragons

for my far-flung readers, some context: the uk is in a second full lockdown. unlike lockdown-lite in november, schools are closed, “non-esse...