Culture

When everyone went to church (but not everyone did)

‘wouldn’t it be nice if more people came to church!” this thought must have been in the minds of many church leaders and churchgoers over th...
Nicholas Orme

Tasty meat-free suggestions for keeping body and soul together in Lent

kate ford, doyenne of the meatfree table, offers her suggestions for these days of abstinence: parsley soup with peas   serves 4  ...
Kate Ford

Perhaps I should leave teaching to the trained professionals

i have sat in numerous hospital waiting rooms over the past few weeks trying to get to the bottom of why one of my children spends most of t...
Olenka Hamilton

Pope Benedict participates in Mass from bed as his condition stabilises

benedict xvi participated in mass from his bed yesterday, the vatican has revealed amid speculation that the pope emeritus is dying. matteo ...
Simon Caldwell

The restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral was a struggle for the soul of France

on sunday, notre dame de paris will be re-opened, re-ordered after the inferno that overcame her. as darkness fell over paris on 15 april 20...
Gavin Ashenden

On Pilgrimage With: Sir Stephen Hough

where would you go? probably assisi. i know what has become known as “the franciscan spirit” is really a later, softer invention or adaptati...
The Catholic Herald

Rubens and the Classical world

rubens: picturing antiquity davide gasparotto, jeffrey spier, anne t woollett getty publications, £30, 192 pages this handsomely-produced bo...
Robert Beddard

Take a leaf out of the US Catholic playbook: Campus ministry at our universities can help save the Church

catholics under 24 years old are precipitating the decline of the church, according to highly-quoted research carried out by the pew researc...
Katie Ascough

The Seven Deadly Sins

anthony kenny introduces our new mini-series. moralists and theologians enjoy attaching numbers to quite abstract entities, such as the four...
Anthony Kenny

Close to Jesus at the last

the suffering of the ukrainian people is one with the passion of the lord, writes bishop kenneth nowakowski when we reflect on the passion o...
Kenneth Nowakowski