Culture

The onset of Lent calls for some flexibility in the kitchen

there is a fashion in the secular world for something called “dry january”. just 31 days without alcohol, in part to make up for all the exc...

The Word: On the Translation of the Bible, by John Barton

the word: on the translation of the bible john barton allen lane, £25, 320 pages the tricky business of translating sacred scripture from th...

Climate alarmism is profoundly un-Christian

in answer to a question thrown at me more than once, and only occasionally with accompanying rotten fruit, “yes, i do call myself a christia...

Katherine Bennett

Lords back abortion buffer zone amendment to turn prayer into 'thought crime'

the house of lords has backed the national roll out of buffer zones around abortion clinics in a move which could turn private and silent pr...

St Brigid: the latest victim of cancel culture in Ireland

february 1 marks the feast of st. brigid in ireland, a day most people in the country grew up with as the second most-important "irish" sain...

Dualta Roughneen

Notebook from Lourdes: the role of Catholic journalists today

three days were set aside for the 26 th  meeting of catholic journalists - the catholic media federation's international day of saint f...

Terrorist murders sacristan and wounds priest in rampage through Spanish churches

an islamist terrorist rampaged through two catholic churches in southern spain, murdering a sacristan and wounding a priest with a machete. ...

The Christian presence in the Holy Land is under threat

the christians of jerusalem – the city at the centre of the world on medieval maps – are now a tiny fraction of the population, just 10,000 ...

Melanie McDonagh

One more step: Church of England bishops to bless same-sex unions

the church of england has been in turmoil about sex for as long as most of us have lived. rather in the way climate alarmists anticipate the...

A splash of Spanish sun at the Royal Academy

there’s something almost secretive about the entrance to the royal academy’s spain and the hispanic world: treasures from the hispanic socie...