Life

Government investigates cancellation of gay teen fiction author's visit to Catholic schools

the archdiocese of southwark is facing an investigation by the government after cancelling a visit by a gay children’s author to two catholi...

“Never in our history have a million people entered Poland in just 10 days"

a tale of good people with a lump in his throat, the exhausted ukrainian president says at a press conference: "i don't know who could be do...

GMC drops restrictions against Catholic doctor who helped women to 'reverse abortions'

the general medical council has dramatically lifted restrictions on a catholic doctor banned from helping women “reverse abortions” after th...

Reading through the Lenten desert

graham greene’s novel, the heart of the matter, begins with an aphorism from charles péguy: “le pécheur est au coeur même chrétienté.... nul...

Diary: I am glad to hold a "synodal process"

there can’t have been many clergy filled with unrestrained enthusiasm and christian joy when told of the requirement to hold a “synodal proc...

Fr Mark Vickers

Keeping the past alive

i have been reading the golden apple of samarkand by lala wilbraham, a wonderful new book which has evaded the reviewers, perhaps because it...

Olenka Hamilton

Diary: The season of grief is marked by hope, says Sarah Sands

since october, my father has been unwell in a nursing home and my mother has been keeping him company there. we said that we would see how t...

Ukraine: “If the churches are bombed, then we shall celebrate elsewhere,” says the Eparch of London

as the bbc reported a mounting death-toll in ukraine, on friday afternoon i spoke about the rapidly-developing situation to the rt revd kenn...

Serenhedd James

Catholic doctor to challenge abortion reversal ban in High Court

a catholic doctor is preparing to challenge an order at the high court in london which blocks him from offering life-saving treatment for un...

Blair's Catholic 'Mr Fixit' gets jail for failing to pay £1million divorce settlement to aristocrat ex-wife

a high court judge has sentenced a catholic former millionaire to a year in jail after he failed to pay a divorce settlement to his aristocr...