Gaza

as it is often noted, christmas seems to begin earlier and earlier every year: certain newspapers can be almost guaranteed to have a letter ...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

we are back to year a in the lectionary, which means that for most of the year we shall be reading from st matthew’s gospel on sundays. the ...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity, from the early 1480s, returned to public display in the nati...

Hugh Kerr

the coercive power of the state is found from the start of the story of our salvation; it’s in the nativity story itself and the feasts that...

Piers Paul Read

i recently returned from a pilgrimage with the british association of the order of malta to the holy land. our visits to the holy places rem...

Mgr John Armitage

in the middle of this month we will celebrate the solemnity of the assumption of the blessed virgin mary. the belief that our lady’s body wa...

Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth

on the first two sundays of lent we always hear the same gospel stories, of the temptations of christ in the wilderness and of the transfigu...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

february promises longer days and the first glimmers of spring, but its arrival also heralds the approach of lent on 2 march. ash wednesday ...

Niall Gooch

cover image: newly appointed svp  director of youth services sarah barber, courtesy of svp   the st vincent de paul society (svp) ...

Staff Reporter

the latin patriarch of jerusalem is urging catholics around the world to pray for “peace and justice” as violence continues in the holy land...

Staff Reporter