Culture

March Issue – A Fighting Order

leaders the order of malta has the right to control its affairs walk this way to level up britain the us church must encourage freedom from ...

The Catholic Herald

Female clergy make unity an impossibility

there was a period after the anglican-roman catholic international commission agreement on ministry and ordination had been published – even...

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali

On Pilgrimage with Sir Bill Cash

where would you go?  i would go to much wenlock and wenlock abbey because it is the site of saint milburga, who was an eighth-century a...

The Catholic Herald

Too much to Handel

what’s the difference between oratorio and opera?” is a tricky question. for the most part, oratorios are spiritual, reflective works perfor...

Keeping the past alive

i have been reading the golden apple of samarkand by lala wilbraham, a wonderful new book which has evaded the reviewers, perhaps because it...

Olenka Hamilton

Diary: The season of grief is marked by hope, says Sarah Sands

since october, my father has been unwell in a nursing home and my mother has been keeping him company there. we said that we would see how t...

Finding the key to an interior life

there cannot be many issues which preoccupy christian parents more than how to keep their children engaged with the faith. this is hardly a ...

Francis Bacon: the body and blood

the royal academy has been transformed for francis bacon: man and beast. there are no more cheerful cascades of summer exhibition paintings;...

Lucien de Guise

More to St Paul’s than religion

in the shadow of st paul’s cathedral: the churchyard that shaped london by margaret willes yale university press, pp. 320, £25 the romanists...

A work whose wings are clipped by prejudice

birds and us: a 12,000 year history, from cave art to conservation by tim birkhead viking 2022, £25, 441 pages our relationship with birds h...