Culture

Emanuela Orlandi to be back in the spotlight in 2024

rome – if she’s somehow still alive, today would mark emanuela orlandi’s 56 th  birthday. in the popular mind, however, especially here...

Diary: I am a poor wayfaring brother

since 2000, when i turned 60, i have lived at the hospital of st cross, a medieval almshouse in winchester. it was founded about 1132 by wil...

Heart over head: Engaging with the Catechism, one paragraph at a time

it’s not that i’m jealous of fr mike schmitz and his success in producing an app that takes you through the catechism in one year – and whic...

Picasso was inspired by his lovers - and by religion

a life of picasso, volume iv: the minotaur years , 1933-1943  by john richardson  jonathan cape, £35, 368 pages john richardson di...

The abdicant generation

many of us find it less inconvenient to be on our own, without the responsibility of commitment. the other day, i was walking across london’...

British Museum's Nero exhibit is 'hair-flattening' take on infamous figure

cover image: publicity for the british museum's  nero: the man behind the myth exhibit, 27 may - 24 october 2021 (image formatted to fi...

Lucien de Guise

The Last Day We Hugged Each Other

whether i’m headed to mass, to teach class, to perform juliet, or write an article, what i always ask when i wake up remains the same: “wait...

'I felt out of place praying at the tomb of a saint': A pilgrim finds Durham Cathedral inhospitable as it prepares for a pop concert

i have always been fascinated with british history. as a child, the monarchs, the anglo-saxons, the vikings, celts and romans all intrigued ...

Thomas Casemore

The Virgin praying... for Ukraine

one spring morning in 1987, 12-year-old maria kyzyn, from the village of hrushiv in west ukraine, declared that she had received a vision of...

Catholic groups hail COP28 progress but say more must be done

catholic leaders say the final agreement at the cop28 conference on climate issues is progress, but it does not move fast enough to eliminat...

Charles Collins