Life

A toast to the Stuarts

At the Royal Stuart Society’s centenary dinner, a surviving attachment to the Stuart cause offered a reflection on monarchy, legitimacy and the place of tradition in modern political life

Why Catholics should sing together again

Music has become increasingly passive in modern life, but the folk tradition offers Catholics a way to recover shared culture and fellowship through singing together

Lola Salem on the domestic Upper Room

In an age of fragmentation and utility, how families might recover the older tradition of forming minds and souls at home

The dangers of performative faith

The growth of Catholic media has opened new paths to conversion, but the deepest witness to Christ still comes through lives transformed from within

Courage in the age of cancel culture

Pentecost reminds us that Christian witness is not about winning arguments, but about speaking with clarity, love and freedom from fear

Why you should go on retreat

From St Ignatius Loyola to Mother Teresa, the saints understood retreat not as escape, but as the place where vocation becomes clear

Have we made wellness a new religion?

Modern wellness culture promises peace through discipline, optimisation and control, but for many it has produced only deeper anxiety and exhaustion

Why Catholics need to build a more attractive culture

Catholics are often effective at critiquing modern culture, but less confident in creating an attractive alternative rooted in beauty, truth and goodness

Beyond eros: recovering the fuller meaning of love

Christianity offers a richer vision of love than modern culture’s fixation on romance, one rooted in friendship, sacrifice and willing the good of the other

Forming hearts of charity in an age of confusion

The challenge of forming hearts of charity in children amid a culture increasingly marked by isolation and loss of meaning