Life

unlike its neighbours of shropshire to the north and worcestershire to the east, herefordshire was not richly endowed with monastic establis...

Michael Hodges

i sat on a mower in the middle of a two-acre field. paths of light and dark criss-crossed the grass. bees darted in and out of the chaff. in...

Nick Ripatrazone

“my god, it is hard to be chained and receive blows but i live this moment as you present it to me.” such was the prayer of sister gloria ce...

John Pontifex

christmas is for many of us a nightmare: relatives, trying not to buy them the same present again, sticking to a budget, and only going beyo...

Daniel Frampton

the man who invented christmas was the irresistible title of a book published in 2008, about charles dickens and his role in shaping or revi...

Niall Gooch

it occurred to me, after i had scattered a handful of earth on the small coffin, six feet below, that my world had changed forever. not in a...

Serenhedd James

the uk is officially post-christian. it is “the first time in a census of england and wales that fewer than half of the population have desc...

Laura Perrins

“democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” insisted winston churchill. less famously, he went on to say that th...

Gavin Ashenden

( photograph of peter hugh smith courtesy of ccla ) a 17-strong investor coalition has called for the largest uk companies to provide better...

Hugh Kerr

i recently returned from a pilgrimage with the british association of the order of malta to the holy land. our visits to the holy places rem...

Mgr John Armitage