Culture

New 'queer' carol: Cardinal Nichols expresses concern

you might think that christmas could be nothing but christian, but that would be to underestimate not only the dulling numbing of secular ho...

Christmas is an antidote to our pampered, egotistical culture

it is no longer fashionable to preach on the “four last things” during advent. death, judgement, hell and heaven are not easy to digest for ...

Following St Joseph's example as Christmas draws near

the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call him emmanuel, a name which means ‘god is with us’.  in the final we...

Fr Mark Vickers

Harry and Meghan epitomise the standard of an unbelieving world

the whole netflix watching world has been talking about harry and meghan this week.  the fact that their documentary, entitled - y...

Katherine Bennett

'Christmas without Bach is unthinkable'

one of the paradoxes of the modern christmas is that we spend a terrific amount on the celebration before the feast and then terminate it ab...

Melanie McDonagh

St Lucy: Italian saint who inspired a Swedish tradition

sweden is far north, cold and secular. yet, every year on the 13 december an italian girl who became a canonised saint of the catholic churc...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

The rise of Protestantism in Latin America

liberation sexuality is no more successful than liberation theology , writes gavin ashenden “the vatican is losing the largest catholic coun...

Already, and not yet: waiting for the coming of Christ

there’s something about advent which speaks to the hearts of us all. because advent is two things. it is a season which is incredibly specia...

Fr Mark Vickers

Doing it for themselves

“oh! women simply don’t pass the test,” exclaimed the distinctly infuriating german painter georg baselitz back in 2013. he was mid-tirade a...

Francesca Peacock

Happy holidays?

tourists: how the british went abroad to find themselves lucy lethbridge bloomsbury, 320pp, £20 dostoyevsky, suffering from constipation in ...