Life

Diary: A spiritual retreat in the heart of Sussex

this easter was compressed for me, in that from the middle of holy week till my alarm clock rang on monday 1 april, it was crammed with acti...
Steve de la Bedoyere

You can’t be a Liberal Democrat if you hold certain 'religious beliefs', leaked legal document shows

it appears that an individual cannot be a member of the liberal democrat party if that person is religious and holds certain views such as b...
The Catholic Herald

The women fighting to stop compulsory sex education in Welsh schools

a few weeks ago i took my daughters aged 2 and 3 to the tate britain to look at some art, but also to try out the two children’s play areas ...
Olenka Hamilton

Don’t expect the EU Iron Curtain to crack if Czechs change same-sex marriage law

a cultural iron curtain now very much divides the two halves of the eu. to the west, are the more progressive, ethnically diverse and secula...
Staff Reporter

Idealism pitted against boomtown vice

anyone looking for a fully immersive fictional experience to transport them out of a dismal locked-down start to the year and into another w...
Emilie Morrison

The problem with the 'new allegations' against St John Paul II

as a child in poland in the 1950s, my mother lived squeezed into a single room in the centre of krakow, with her father, brother, aunt, uncl...
Olenka Hamilton

The 'right to sex' was a step too far for the Supreme Court, but they still have questions to answer

legal decisions don’t normally make for exciting reading, but can tell you a great deal about what happens when legislators a...
Prof Andrew Tettenborn

Failure to find bodies ends Canada's inquiry into mass burials at Church-run schools

the canadian government has halted an inquiry into claims of mass burials of children at former church-run residential schools – after not o...
Simon Caldwell

Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID): What it is and why Catholics need be aware of it

the bbc headline read “‘eunuch-maker’ mutilator jailed for 22 years” – it was enough to grab anyone’s attention. the article spoke of a dege...
Thomas Casemore

There is a wealth of peaceful, prayerful heritage in the old churches across our land

within a day’s hike from my house in a quiet corner of kent, there are at least four ruined or abandoned chapels. my father, a retired angli...
Niall Gooch