Soul

Discovering the Gothic foundations of Faith

i can’t quite put my finger on it. when  was  the moment i was converted? was it after a friend, whose virtues stood as a witness ...

The Supreme Court, God and animals

on october 11th something unprecedented is happening in an amicus brief on file at the supreme court which invokes church and western theolo...

Pamfir: A moral tale for our times

julia hamilton is gripped by ukrainian crime thriller pamfir. this stunning film is the feature-length debut of ukrainian director dmytro su...

Glory above the altar: David Ekserdjian’s work on Italian Renaissance Altarpieces

given the sacramental primacy of the altar in the doctrinal and theological economy of the catholic church, altarpieces have necessarily dem...

It's the detail that is rewarding

less than a year after a major refurbishment, the courtauld gallery has already had exhibitions of two of the biggest names in early modern ...

Lucien de Guise

Lady Mabel's Gold: a refreshing sequel to Simon Caldwell's Beast of Bethulia Park

the northern mill town of wigan has an illustrious literary history as the setting for george orwell’s 1937 investigation/memoir  the r...

Elizabeth Thornton

Normal for Norfolk?: Churches, bike rides, Communion, and skateboards

struggling to settle, a skateboarding sister and first communions. why are you here? the question i am asked so frequently is posed not with...

Living in fear of an oppressive regime

the china nexus:  thirty years in and around the chinese communist party’s tyranny  benedict rogers  optimum publishing, £18....

On the Record: Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday

an ascension day procession in bavaria if you are near oxford, make haste to the bodleian library, where you will find on display the autogr...

Alex Hodgkinson

Pope discusses climate change with Nancy Pelosi as abortion storm rages in California

pope francis has met with house speaker nancy pelosi, the democrat politician often at the centre of controversy over her support for aborti...