Life

Come on you Spurs!: Too much efficiency and rule-following can stunt our lives

in november, tottenham hotspur – my team – played chelsea. it was one of the most extraordinary games in recent footballing history, with no...

Why would women want to be Catholic priests when they can be Saints instead

the leaders of the german synodal way decided to make waves in 2023 by leaving biblical theology and anthropology at the door and endorsing ...

Dealing with war and refugees as a priest in Rhodes and Israel

the island of rhodes, in the aegean sea, has always been a gateway between east and west. as the parish priest here for the past 23 years, i...

Luke Gregory OFM

Letter from the Editor: Jeremy Irons, the Cotswolds, charity and Da Vinci

on a chilly night early in december, i attended a wonderful charity dinner at sudeley castle in gloucestershire which raised money for wellc...

Did the King's speech bode well for his faithful subjects in 2024, a year that could prove momentous?

in the spirit of apocalyptic optimism, political pundits are prophesying not so much doom rather a great deal of civic excitement for this n...

'Catholicism in Numbers': New data highlights the changing Catholic Church in Britain and Ireland

a new set of pastoral statistics regarding the catholic church in england and wales, scotland and ireland has been released by the catholic ...

The charms of a Tuscan Christmas

thanks to renaissance art, tuscany looks like everyone’s idea of christmas. the sheep still huddle in groups on the open hillsides, and are ...

John Martin Robinson

Rift widens over gay blessings as Hungarian bishops reject them but Indian cardinal says yes

india’s most senior cardinal has defended fiducia supplicans - the controversial new vatican text approving non-liturgical blessings for sam...

Pope offers usual Christmas message of hope while lamenting ‘the little Jesuses of today’ lost to war, migration and abortion

at the end of a year marked by the outbreak of fresh wars and by various personal health crises, pope francis at christmas offered a message...

Elise Ann Allen

Mongolia’s tiny Catholic community just got a Christmas Eve boost

ulaanbaatar – one of the world’s smallest catholic flocks is growing in number, after the mongolian church added three native women to its r...