Culture

has king charles sowed the seeds of the destruction of the house of windsor? dramatically this year the king’s speech refers not just to a f...

Gavin Ashenden

priest-holes – those small spaces in old english houses which sheltered mission priests in the dangerous days of the elizabethan persecution...

The Catholic Herald

the fading of christian faith as a vital force in modern britain is nowhere more evident than in the broadcast media; its growing coarseness...

Niall Gooch

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

Gavin Ashenden

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 ...

Gavin Ashenden

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

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

Katherine Bennett

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

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

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

Gavin Ashenden