Culture

Going on pilgrimage feels like an act of rebellion against secular modern society, and it's on the rise in Britain

is it me or can catholics be a bit headstrong these days? i asked myself that question after attempting to marshal the catholic herald’s&nbs...

Saint Benedict In His Community, by Richard Newman

richard newman gracewing, £14.99, 244 pages this small book is a revision and extension of richard newman’s saint benedict in his time, whic...

Philippa Edwards OSB

Something for everyone: there is unity in the diversity of the Church’s rites

unexpectedly, our american brothers and sisters who have up to now attended the traditional latin mass (tlm) have been in the news a lot lat...

Dr John Barton's favourite book of the Bible: Ecclesiasticus

john barton speaks out for an undervalued and little-read wisdom book of the old testament . ‘let us now praise famous men.” these words, fr...

Rational enquiries: a Dominican friar meets a theoretical physicist

robert verrill op meets carlo rovelli, the italian theoretical physicist whose latest book latest book challenges monotheistic faith. it see...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History, by Philip C Almond

mary magdalene: a cultural history philip c almond cambridge university press, £30, 386 pages ‘will the real mary magdalene please stand up?...

Alexander Faludy

Feast and Fast: Dominican friar offers his recipe whilst delighting in the scents and tastes he associates with Holy Week

holy week and easter have been at the heart of my growth in the faith. from my late teenage years as a progressively more arch and spiky ang...

Albert Robertson OP

Byrd is the word: The old faith of England is this year’s focus of The Sixteen

the old faith of england is this year’s focus of the sixteen, finds serenhedd james . a wise, sharp-eyed owl peers out from the programme of...

Serenhedd James

Jordan Peterson, politics, and Christian conversion

the twitter account of pope francis is almost certainly run by well-meaning officials who post well-meaning tweets in his name, intended to ...

After Impressionism: encountering my inner Philistine at London's National Gallery

le singe est dans l’arbre. the state visit to france was cancelled in the wake of protests at the very idea - quelle horreur - that the fren...

Serenhedd James