Europe

October Diary: Reflecting on the plight of refugees

i was in vienna for a few days last month and kept seeing the stumbling stones, brass cobbles with the names and dates of death of the jews ...

Anna Somers Cocks

Diary: Art without God

i was going through some of my old portfolios the other day – i am a catholic-raised artist working somewhat incongruously in the atelier of...

Wanted: backers for a religious thriller

in march 2020, with lockdown imminent, an old friend called laurie berg rang me to ask if i would read a synopsis for a religious film or pe...

Strengthening those in despair

you might think poets make natural martyrs. passionate, idealistic, enraptured by visions of artistic immortality; throughout history, barri...

Helping to lift burdens

as we grow closer to the poor, little by little we gain their confidence and can advise them in the most terrible moments of this earthly pi...

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati

A readable yarn but none too credible

matrix by lauren groff  william heinemann, £16.99, 272 pages __________ the 12th-century poet we know as marie de france was, scholars ...

Following St Francis

on 4 october 2003, the feast day of saint francis, i arrived in santiago de compostela, having completed the camino frances, the pilgrimage ...

The Synod Needs You

a synod on synodality may seem like an oxymoron but that is what is beginning this month. pope francis wants to rethink how the church is ru...

The Catholic Herald

Vatican requires vaccine pass for visitors, employees

vatican city, sep 20, 2021 / 08:15 am the vatican will require all visitors and personnel to show a covid-19 pass proving they have been vac...

Hannah Brockhaus

Margaret of Castello – the unwanted saint

on sunday, a solemn mass of thanksgiving in the church of san domenico in castillo, italy—where margaret of castillo’s body lies incorrupt—p...