Life

Biden’s Faith in Solidarity

as i write this, i glance at a funeral mass card on a shelf above my desk. the card is from 1963 – for john f kennedy – recently retrieved f...
Jon Cruddas MP

The pilgrimage of a lifetime

the ways in which we use the word pilgrimage have changed so much during my lifetime. and yet, i realise increasingly, the core of what it a...
Peter Stanford

Anya Hindmarch, an honorary Catholic?

full and fair disclosure: i am not catholic. but i did spend seven years at a catholic convent wanting to be part of the club. being the out...
Anya Hindmarch

Let's get physical

since march 2020, i and many of the other denizens of east oxford have become intimately acquainted with the trees of aston’s eyot, a former...
Serenhedd James

Christianity and all that

the treasures of english churches: witnesses to the history of a nation, by matthew byrne shire publications, £20, 160 pages and did those f...
Harry Mount

Peter Ainsworth – a heritage hero

the death of peter ainsworth in april this year was a great loss to the heritage sector in england. peter had given over 30 years of commitm...
Peter Aiers

Sacred flames

the time of the summer solstice, of greatest light and greenery, has always been one of the naturally numinous points of the year for humans...
Ronald Hutton

A home without a heart

in 1956 the writer evelyn waugh bought a handsome house in the shadow of the quantock hills for £7,500. made of red sandstone, like the red ...
Sophia Waugh

Steve Skojec's Traditionalist Disillusion

the last straw for steve skojec was an fssp priest telling him that his son couldn’t make his first communion, and his soon-to-be-born son w...
Steven D. Greydanus

Church movements denounce attacks against the Yanomami in Brazil

images projected by the ngo instituto socioambiental on the national congress building in brasilia, on 3 december 2020. (evaristo sa/afp via...
Eduardo Campos Lima