Soul

the week of prayer for christian unity can be, for many, one of the most depressing weeks of the year; so much aspiration deflated by so lit...

Gavin Ashenden

priests should grant absolution in the confessional even when the penitent has no intention to repent, the pope has said in a speech which h...

Simon Caldwell

there is an episode of  friends  where single girl phoebe struggles with the fact that the guy she is dating won’t sleep with her....

Katherine Bennett

what are you doing for the coronation?  i mean  you . of course we know we all get a public holiday and there will be commemorativ...

Joanna Bogle

i have heard it said that every funeral, whatever the scale and whatever the setting, ought to be in some sense a confrontation with death. ...

Niall Gooch

as the three wise men make their way home in the latin rite, many eastern christians will only just be ending the fast before the nativity. ...

Fr Mark Woodruff

english-speakers call it "the epiphany", but the germans say heilige drei könige : the three holy kings. and yet st matthew doesn’t tell us ...

Mgr Andrew Burnham

the end of the christmas octave brings us to epiphany eve: so end our special twelve-days features, which we hope you have enjoyed. for all ...

Evelyn Waugh

new curbs on the traditional latin mass “broke pope benedict’s heart”, according to his private secretary. archbishop georg gänswein, the cl...

Simon Caldwell

viktor orbán was among world leaders to visit st peter’s basilica in rome on tuesday, where he paid his respe cts to pope emeritus benedict ...

Diana Montagna