Interview

Downplaying drama and praising the ineffectual

i didn’t see a single sean bean in game of thrones “brace yourselves” meme this time, but there’s a little for everybody in the interview po...

Christopher Altieri

Muggeridge on the meaning of life in a monastery

founded in 1946, nunraw abbey (from "nun's row") was the first cistercian monastery in scotland since the reformation. the monastery, locate...

FromtheArchives

‘We should never have a perfect Church’

canon law is dinner-party talk once more. in households up and down the country, catholic and non-catholic alike, the canonical form of marr...

‘Dominicans value the intellectual life’

when i was a novice, our novice master told us that, while god has promised that the church will endure until the end of time, no such promi...

Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth

Believing in Miracles

graham greene once remarked that the biggest problem of our age lies in the fact that we have lost the ability to believe in miracles and th...

Not Everyone Should Receive: What the Communion Debate's Really About

i would not have made the decision that the american catholic bishops just made. they voted by a three-to-one majority to authorize the draf...

HollyTaylorCoolman

Boris Johnson refuses to say whether he is a practicing Catholic

questions have swirled around uk prime minister boris johnson’s religious affiliation in the wake of his marriage to long-time partner in a ...

Fr James Martin’s Subtle Method for Undermining Sound Doctrine

i think i’ve finally wrapped my mind around fr james martin sj’s method for undermining sound doctrine and leading souls astray without ever...

Who wants to live forever anyway?

have you seen correggio’s assumption of the virgin ? it’s horrifying.   the feast of the ascension was celebrated last month and idle c...

Constance Watson

It's Not All the Bitter Boomers' Fault

robyn beck/afp via getty images   i’ve just finished reading boomers, helen andrews’ send-up of her parents’ generation. my parents are...