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Benedict XVI and my vocation to the priesthood

no matter how inevitable or indeed no matter how unexpected, death has a powerful way of gripping the heart and bringing the mind into sharp...

Fr Paschal Uche

The Harpole Treasure gives us a glimpse into Anglo-Saxon England’s great women of faith

archaeologists excavating ahead of a housing development at harpole, near northampton, have discovered an astonishing 7th-century burial. ac...

Quarr Abbey monk on the meaning of identity

since time immemorial, pilgrims have been travelling to islands to meet holy men and women, and so it was that i found myself heading for qu...

Feasting does not have to be lavish to be festal

preparation is crucial to celebrating christmas well. but so often the kind of preparation most people mean only really adds pressure, and p...

Albert Robertson OP

Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past, by James Stourton

heritage: a history of how we conserve our past james stourton head of zeus, £40, 496 pages james stourton chooses a quotation on the theme ...

English Victorian Churches: Architecture, Faith and Revival, by James Steven Curl

english victorian churches: architecture, faith and revival james stevens curl john hudson publishing, £50, 240 pages this handsome little b...

Catholic-Jewish relations 60 years after Vatican II

jacob’s younger brother karma ben-johanan harvard university press, £30.95, 336 pages i remember once presenting a paper on the theological ...

Dr Bede Rowe OSB

The many parallels between the boxing ring and the spiritual life

martial arts, boxing and the catholic faith seem unlikely bedfellows. once again british heavyweight tyson “gypsy king” fury has retained hi...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

Father Brown and the Mystery of Chesterton

with due deference to the originator of the latest foray in to the world of father brown, i doubt many devotees of gk chesterton’s clerical ...

Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman

Piero’s new-look Nativity

after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity, from the early 1480s, returned to public display in the nati...