Life

nick ripatrazone considers the deep, spiritually introspective words of an award-winning poet who worked with grieving children. in arlingto...

Nick Ripatrazone

when one of my previous bosses, a university vice-chancellor, wanted to show his contempt for a problem, he would dismiss it as a “theologic...

Gavin Ashenden

(the manager of bioart fertility clinics lab prepares thawed blastocysts during an in-vitro fertilisation process in johannesburg, on februa...

David Albert Jones

family is where you find it, as they say. it is a broad statement in the face of which the church’s social teachings have to hold their own ...

Mary Walker

richard newman gracewing, £14.99, 244 pages this small book is a revision and extension of richard newman’s saint benedict in his time, whic...

Philippa Edwards OSB

john barton speaks out for an undervalued and little-read wisdom book of the old testament . ‘let us now praise famous men.” these words, fr...

Dr John Barton

a london nhs trust has settled a discrimination case with a catholic chaplain who was ousted for answering questions from a patient on a psy...

Simon Caldwell

the twitter account of pope francis is almost certainly run by well-meaning officials who post well-meaning tweets in his name, intended to ...

Gavin Ashenden

i cannot now remember the number of times that i have sat in the sheldonian theatre in oxford, wearing an academic gown of either red or bla...

Serenhedd James

in a recent parliamentary questions session in ireland , taoiseach (prime minister) leo varadkar provided a surprisingly frank and sensible ...

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