Culture

Byrd’s secret music soars

michael white on a clandestine retelling of william byrd’s 16th-century mass settings and a buddhist interpretation of bach’s passions. we h...

The demographics of the Traditional Latin Mass

dog lovers everywhere are waiting with baited breath to discover the fate of shroom. shroom is a 6 stone carpathian shepherd dog who, in a m...

The miracle of Jesus’s conception

science has attempted to explain it, but ties itself in knots. on march 25, we celebrate the feast of the annunciation, also known as the fe...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

Fr Jeffrey Kirby: Pulling no punches

i spoke recently with fr jeffrey kirby, a moral theologian and priest in south carolina, whose book sanctify them in truth is a response to ...

Katherine Bennett

It is easy to get distracted from what really matters in life

it is easy to get distracted from what really matters in life for the first week of february, chez gooch was a plague house. all of us were ...

Philokalia: Volume 5, reviewed by Mark Jenkins

philokalia: volume 5 ed. kallistos ware faber & faber, £30, 324 pages the much-anticipated fifth volume of an english translation of the...

Letter from the Editor: Crisis in the Church and growth for the Herald

i enjoyed reading peter frankopan’s diary for this issue, in which he admits that writing a book is a “very spiritual experience”. after his...

Deeper insight into Mary, Queen of Scots

a moving and insightful treasure trove of her ‘lost letters’ has been discovered online, writes gertrude clark. the “most important new find...

Gertrude Clarke

The demise of Christian America

stephen bullivant presents evidence that the us is becoming an ex-christian country, as more people become ‘nonverts’ to no religion . meet ...

Stephen Bullivant

Recipes: There’s no reason why Lent shouldn’t be both meat-free and delicious

here we are, then, in the middle of lent. perhaps you’re keeping your resolutions, or perhaps you’re finding it more difficult. however you’...