Pope Francis

‘the coming of our god, our thoughts must now employ.” these words set the tone for our approach to christmas. the famous advent sermon of s...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols

the reputation of st thomas more has for centuries survived the “shafts of falsehood and of folly”, to borrow a phrase of william cobbett, t...

Simon Caldwell

w hen pope john xxiii called for the second vatican council in 1959, he did not know fully what would be its outcome. he had an instinct, an...

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor

anybody who has had but the slightest involvement with the musical life of his church, be he so high as music director, master of all he sur...

David Oldroyd-Bolt

i first cared about being catholic, not out of any profound love for the person of christ, but out of a profound distaste for my other optio...

Marc Barnes

a churchman living in east london despairs of his flock. “there are many people who do not believe that god exists, nor do they think that t...

Ed West

at some point in the coming days, buffeted by the frenzy and bombast of a 21st-century christmas, you may have the urge (and perhaps just a ...

Michael Duggan

communion of saints by stephen walford, angelico press, £17 subtitled “the unity of divine love in the mystical body of christ”, this book e...

Francis Phillips

from st bonaventure’s life of st francis of assisi we get the enigmatic story of how francis created the first crib, in the woods near grecc...

Pastor Iuventus

Francis tells Curial officials that his listing of their spiritual diseases two years ago was part of the process

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