Europe

A History of Delusions, by Victoria Shepherd

a history of delusions: the glass king, a substitute husband and a walking corpse victoria shepherd oneworld, £16.99, 352 pages where do del...
Philip Sidney

Holy Communion from the chalice to return on Holy Thursday

holy communion under both species is to be reintroduced into catholic parishes from the holy thursday mass of the lord’s supper. the bishops...
Simon Caldwell

Fr Konstantin Budkiewicz and why the Blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church

andrzej piotrowski reflects on fr konstantin budkiewicz, 100 years after his murder. with his balding pate, pince-nez spectacles and boy-lik...
Andrzej Piotrowski

The Lancet Commission: Considering death and its value

the ‘lancet commission on the value of death’ has much to commend it, says james le fanu. like many before me, i find myself at that stage o...
James Le Fanu

Irish teacher's religious objection to gender affirmation backed by the science

enoch burke was originally suspended from his role as a secondary school teacher at wilson’s hospital school in ireland for refusing to reco...
Dualta Roughneen

Valentine’s Day diary from Ukraine

by brooks newmark  i have ended up on february 14 in odesa, an old port city on the black sea in southern ukraine. my wife lucy flew ou...
The Catholic Herald

George Weigel's new book is a colossal contribution to modern Church history

“christendom was over.” these stark words, repeated several times by the great american scholar george weigel in his new book,  to sanc...
Daniel Johnson

The legend of the Minotaur comes to Oxford

the sainsbury exhibition galleries at the ashmolean museum in oxford aren’t the largest space in the world, and on entry labyrinth: knossos,...
Mary Walker

Same-sex blessings vote shows the CoE favours secular consensus over Christianity

we don’t know who coined the phrase: “whoever was first to discover water, it wasn’t the fish.” but einstein liked it enough to borrow it: “...
Gavin Ashenden

The problem with a 'gender-neutral' God

the church of england bishops, we are told, are going to debate whether god should be gender neutral, and thus not referred to as "he" or "f...
Katherine Bennett