Culture

Clinging on in Ukraine: family, childhood and Catholicism

the country today often seems like the setting of a world war ii film with all the usual paradoxes, as the war enters its third year . cafés...
Jeffrey Wills

Inglorious Revolution: subcurrents around James II’s attempts at religious toleration

“the glorious revolution” is one of those phrases catholics like to put quotation marks around. the dominant narrative of james ii’s deposit...
Lucy Underwood

The beauty and power of music can bring us into the presence of the Divine

a book on sexual passion, which was authored by cardinal fernández of the dicastery for the doctrine of the faith, has recently been redisco...
Gavin Ashenden

Ukrainian Catholic community in UK count the costs and kindnesses at two-year anniversary of Russian invasion

in the basement of the ukrainian catholic cathedral in central london is the ukrainian welcome centre that has been serving refugees since t...
James Jeffrey

Can't beat the oldies: Nicene Creed tops online Lenten prayer campaign by Archdiocese of Southwark

an online lenten prayer campaign by the archdiocese of southwark is proving a roaring success and was seen by over 1.5 million social m...
The Catholic Herald

‘The Road to Wild Wales’: BBC pilgrimage series returns to explore landscape of early Celtic saints

the north wales pilgrim’s way will feature in the   sixth series of  pilgrimage  that returns to the bbc in march 2024, as&nb...
James Jeffrey

Pugin's legacy assaulted and recovered: the story of St Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham

augustus welby northbourne pugin (1812-52) was received into the church in salisbury in 1835. the next year he published his contrasts , in ...
Michael Hodges

Yoga: What’s the problem with a bit of Downward Dog?

during the mid-2000s, there was a brief publishing trend for feel-good novels with folksy titles: salmon fishing in the yemen and a short hi...
Flora Watkins

Those who suffer in the cause of 'righteousness': Alexei Navalny’s Christian conversion

the unexpected death of russian opposition leader alexei navalny in mysterious circumstances at a russian penal colony has drawn commen...
The Catholic Herald

Rising from the ashes: Notre Dame comes to Westminster Abbey

on 15 april 2019 the world watched as notre dame de paris burned. after the flèche collapsed and smoke appeared through the louvres of the w...
Serenhedd James