Europe

The king of contemplation

ralph fiennes’ staging of  ts eliot’s four quartets at the harold pinter theatre in london – which ended its  run just b...

Melissa Brady-Dant

MacMillan’s Christmas cracker

it’s a brave thing, to compose a christmas oratorio when you’re not bach: the comparisons between his genius and yours are likely to be awkw...

Wrapper’s delight

one only has to think of the controversy about doctor who, and the casting of jodie whittaker as the 13th doctor back in 2018, to be reminde...

Serenhedd James

On social graces

if you tend your garden yourself, there is always a danger that all you will see as you walk around it is a worryingly long list of jobs. th...

Attacks on Christians in Europe soar by 70 per cent in a year amid rise in secularist and Islamist ideologies

attacks on christians and church property in europe has soared by 70 per cent in just one year, a new report has said. physical violence, ar...

EU bid to ban word 'Christmas' is throwback to Nazi and Communist eras, Pope tells journalists

the pope has denounced an attempt by the european union to excise the word “christmas” from official documentation as a throwback to the dic...

Pope Francis calls migrant crisis a 'shipwreck of civilization' during refugee camp visit

from a refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos, pope francis decried european indifference to the plight of migrants in the mediterranean...

The genial prince who could stir Rome up

fra’ matthew festing who has died aged 71 in valletta, malta, was the 79th grand master of the sovereign military order of malta. he was the...

John Martin Robinson

Maintaining the Christmas spirit

'i will honour christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” what a striking promise scrooge makes to the spirit of christmas yet...

An Abbot’s Notebook

this year, christmas midnight mass will mark exactly 900 years since st norbert and his first followers made their vows at midnight mass in ...

Abbott Hugh Allan