Culture

frank cottrell-boyce wonders at our recognising voices. what an extraordinary thing it is that we recognise individual human voices. that i ...

Frank

according to cardinal matteo zuppi, there are no special “signs” to be read into his attendance and presiding over vespers for a recent annu...

Ignatius Dean

catholic writers can convey their faith beautifully in their prose. evelyn waugh managed to insert catholic characters in his novels. tolkie...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

journalist simon caldwell’s debut novel the beast of bethulia park might just be the most believable thriller on our shelves this year. we f...

Georgia L. Gilholy

pope francis writes a note to a pilgrim at the vatican on 6 july 2016. (gabriel bouys/afp via getty images)   pope francis has written ...

Staff Reporter

one way and another, becoming a parent is an extremely reliable confirmer of common sense. a few of the obvious ones include: boys and girls...

Niall Gooch

why did a record number of people go on this year’s paris to chartres pilgrimage? and why were so many of the estimated 18,000 - 20,000 pilg...

Paul Sapper

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

John L Allen

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...

Bevis Hillier

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...

Gavin Ashenden