Europe

On Pilgrimage With: Sir Stephen Hough

where would you go? probably assisi. i know what has become known as “the franciscan spirit” is really a later, softer invention or adaptati...

The Catholic Herald

Rubens and the Classical world

rubens: picturing antiquity davide gasparotto, jeffrey spier, anne t woollett getty publications, £30, 192 pages this handsomely-produced bo...

Pope in face of demographic winter: without an improved birth rate, Italy has no future

pope francis lamented italy’s drastically declining birth rate at the opening of an initiative by the forum of family associations. since th...

Take a leaf out of the US Catholic playbook: Campus ministry at our universities can help save the Church

catholics under 24 years old are precipitating the decline of the church, according to highly-quoted research carried out by the pew researc...

"Jesus walks for me": Pope Francis leads Stations of the Cross in Lisbon

lisbon – in an off-the-cuff speech to young people praying the “way of the cross” with him in lisbon friday, pope francis said the cross is ...

Elise Ann Allen

Reimagining Saint Sebastian: from Pretorian Guard to artistic lodestar

today the church commemorates saint sebastian, a 3rd-century member of the pretorian guard of the pagan emperor diocletian, who, on discover...

Peter Ogwen Jones

Rupnik dismissed from Jesuits

the priest and artist father marko rupnik, accused of the physical and psychological abuse of numerous religious sisters, was dismissed from...

Hannah Brockhaus

Diary: A spiritual retreat in the heart of Sussex

this easter was compressed for me, in that from the middle of holy week till my alarm clock rang on monday 1 april, it was crammed with acti...

Steve de la Bedoyere

Diary: by Harry Mount

my late godmother, the marchioness of dufferin and ava (1941-2020), had  a unique combination of talents. i’ve tried to record som...

Tár: Cate Blanchett deserves an Oscar for her role in this disturbing and divisive new film

todd field’s first film for sixteen years,  tár  – starring cate blanchett as lydia tár, an american superstar composer-conductor ...