Soul

at the beginning of the first lockdown in march 2020, a government scheme called “everyone in” succeeded in getting almost every single pers...

Olenka Hamilton

after the accession of elizabeth i in 1558, catholics were forced out of the ancient parish churches of england. by act of parliament, catho...

John Martin Robinson and Michael Hodges

this year, christmas midnight mass will mark exactly 900 years since st norbert and his first followers made their vows at midnight mass in ...

Abbott Hugh Allan

a child is born for us, and a son is given to us (isaiah 9:5) the mass of christmas day begins with these joyful words of isaiah’s...

Bishop Mark Davies

in a pivotal scene in evelyn waugh’s novel  brideshead revisited , the agnostic narrator and main character charles ryder interrogates ...

Ken Craycraft

we are winding up another year overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic, and as we do so we are accompanied by hymns and carols heralding th...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

i have recently been reading david spiegelhalter and anthony masters’  covid by numbers: making sense of the pandemic with data  (...

Stephen Bullivant

within a few minutes of meeting cardinal pell at the travellers club in pall mall, he makes a revealing comment about the proposed title of ...

William Cash

last year, my husband and i decided it would be best to stay in london and celebrate christmas at home. it was our daughter lily’s first chr...

lara prendergast

a campaign is to be launched to canonise a monk who dedicated his life to taking disabled people to lourdes. a mass celebrated at our lady o...

Simon Caldwell