Life

Church-run B&Bs, other facilities in Italy could be facing $11 billion tax bill

rome – visitors planning a trip to rome and hoping to save some money by staying in a monastery, convent or any other church-run facility mi...

Making it admirable once again to be a priest with St John Vianney

the blair government of 1997-2010 made education, education and education the top three priorities for a country leaping into the new millen...

Katherine Bennett

Seven Deadly Sins: Lust and the havoc that it has wreaked through history

it is surprising how often lust intervenes in simple human situations, wreaking disaster – and that includes in history. for example, the ma...

'Some Thoughts on Love and Food': A Table Full of Love, by Skye McAlpine

a table full of love skye mcalpine bloomsbury, £25, 319 pages at first glance, i thought that skye mcalpine’s a table full of love might be ...

Jerusalem's Latin Patriarch tells Christians to heed ‘call’ to live in Holy Land despite continual conflict

jerusalem’s latin patriarch has urged christians to remain in the holy land despite the current gaza war nearing its one-year mark and with ...

The Wonder (2022), directed by Sebastián Lelio

directed by chilean filmmaker sebastián lelio, the wonder is a religious mystery which begins with a disembodied voice telling the audience:...

Andrew Petiprin

Life at home with the wren

the wren is an interesting fellow and he is sufficient in number to ensure that if you keep your eyes peeled in your garden or local park yo...

The Knights Hospitaller still take up arms in the 21st century: getting to grips with medieval combat in Normandy

the military order of st john of jerusalem, of rhodes and of malta (the knights hospitaller) is known in modern catholic circles today less ...

Crispin Culbertson

Changes in the state curriculum are spurring an increase in home-education

my oldest daughter is due to start school in september next year and applications for state schools will be due around christmas. one often ...

Olenka Hamilton

The extraordinary overruling of Roe v Wade

in an unprecedented leak of an opinion of the united states supreme court, it appears that the court has voted to vacate the landmark and no...