Europe

The Rupnik Scandal: the Jesuit must stand trial, says New York canonist

father marko rupnik at a private audience with pope francis at the apostolic palace on january 3, 2022 (vatican media) (rome) fr marko ...

The Christmas speech that defines the King as a 'defender of faiths'

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...

Christmas is an antidote to our pampered, egotistical culture

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 ...

Pope warns race-baiters against 'appropriation' of Our Lady of Guadalupe

on the feast day of our lady of guadalupe earlier this week, pope francis, celebrating in the vatican, offered some helpful insights into ho...

'Christmas without Bach is unthinkable'

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

Already, and not yet: waiting for the coming of Christ

there’s something about advent which speaks to the hearts of us all. because advent is two things. it is a season which is incredibly specia...

Fr Mark Vickers

Doing it for themselves

“oh! women simply don’t pass the test,” exclaimed the distinctly infuriating german painter georg baselitz back in 2013. he was mid-tirade a...

Francesca Peacock

Happy holidays?

tourists: how the british went abroad to find themselves lucy lethbridge bloomsbury, 320pp, £20 dostoyevsky, suffering from constipation in ...

More channel migrants is not the Christian response

a few weeks ago, at the checkout of a department store close to the seafront in dover, i overheard a mildly alarming exchange between the pe...

Census 2021: the hidden threat to church and state

the shift in religious and christian allegiance within the population was always predicted to arrive around about now, and here it is. sudde...