Europe

everyone should miss a flight at least once – as long as the location is congenial, the circumstances understandable and the mitigation reas...

Serenhedd James

the problem of securing convenient yet affordable accommodation has confronted visitors to rome since at least the 14th century, when pilgri...

George Young

in a tweet that upset many people, the prominent atheist richard dawkins declared that he loved listening to the bells of winchester cathedr...

Katherine Bennett

the bishop of shrewsbury has called upon voters to encourage politicians seeking election in the forthcoming general election to m...

The Catholic Herald

british academic paul seabright recently published an intriguing new book called the divine economy , which attempts to offer an economic an...

John Allen

recently, the comedienne grace campbell wrote in the observer : “i am obviously pro-choice. i say obviously, not because i assume you know w...

Anthony McCarthy

two hundred years ago, on wednesday 23 june 1824, john henry newman preached his first sermon. not in oxford but seventeen miles north in th...

Paul Shrimpton

the french are not known for being fans of american ways. but their voting patterns, especially among catholics, are becoming more similar w...

Gavin Mortimer

the english college at lisbon 1622-1972 , by simon johnson gracewing, £25, 272 pages the relationship between britain and portugal is often ...

Deacon Stephen Morgan

proclaimed before the gospel on the feast of corpus christi, lauda sion is one of the four medieval sequences that remain in annual use. the...

Alex Hodgkinson