Europe

Catholic parish asks faithful not to attend Mass unless they have Covid vaccine

a parish in nottingham has asked catholics not to attend mass if they are “not vaccinated and/or won’t wear a mask.” the parish of the holy ...

Luke Coppen CNA

Twenty-two missionaries murdered in 2021, reveals Vatican in annual report

twenty-two catholic missionaries were killed around the world in 2021, half of them in africa, according to a report released by the fides n...

Dickens has been proved wrong about the festive season

if charles dickens had combined his own capacity for overwrought emotional fantasy with h.g. wells’s talent for speculative fiction,  a...

Unwelcome alteration

there is a folk history of the reformation in england which goes roughly as follows: in the years immediately before the break with rome, th...

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...