Soul

The beautiful scent of a newborn: Learning to live with the chaos of three small children

“why does he smell so good?” my eldest daughter, ophelia, asked. she and her sister had just arrived at the hospital to meet their new baby ...
Olenka Hamilton

A tale of two cities: Wandering through London, from a pagan temple to the Brompton Oratory

i took myself off on a jaunt through london last month, following a favourite route through two cities (the other being westminster) which t...
Serenhedd James

Russell Brand ‘baptised’ while making oblique Catholic references

russell brand has announced he received a christian baptism last weekend, though it remains unclear into which church he has been received. ...
Tom Colsy

Gillian Keegan announces 'landmark decision' to lift faith-based admissions cap on free schools

education secretary gillian keegan has announced plans to lift the notorious faith-based admissions cap on new free schools. following lobby...
Simon Caldwell

Spirituality, if not religion, in the works of Bach and Britten

austere, stark, private; the bach solo cello suites aren’t usually thought of as religious works. bach wrote them, probably, as exercises fo...
Michael White

The Moral Life with James F Keenan explores subjects such as grief and vulnerability

"the question about our world is not really why so much violence, but why so little? why are we not always at each other’s throats?” in 1997...
Nick Ripatrazone

Catherine Pakaluk discusses religious influences on mothers choosing to have lots of babies

it is old news that birth rates are falling in britain and across the west. and yet, despite this, discussion around fertility rates is only...
Portia Berry-Kilby

Where to eat after Mass: Ealing Abbey and Meadow

st benedict’s abbey church in ealing, west london, was begun in the late victorian era and completed in 1934. the monastery that it serves b...
Charles Pelham

‘Momentous’ day for Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham as it gets first Bishop Ordinary

pope francis has accepted the resignation of the right revd mgr keith newton from his pastoral responsibility for the ordinariate of our lad...
The Catholic Herald

Guilt by association is everywhere now and is the antithesis of Christ's message

twice in the last twelve months friends have written to me warning me not to speak at particular conferences. they have advised me that i wi...
Gavin Ashenden