Soul

(rome) ever since the fr rupnik scandal broke earlier this month — alleging that the slovenian jesuit artist serially abused women religious...

Diana Montagna

on the feast of st john the evangelist, the great apostle of the incarnation, an extract from the third chapter of st athanasius’s great tre...

St Athanasius of Alexandria

has king charles sowed the seeds of the destruction of the house of windsor? dramatically this year the king’s speech refers not just to a f...

Gavin Ashenden

the fading of christian faith as a vital force in modern britain is nowhere more evident than in the broadcast media; its growing coarseness...

Niall Gooch

it is no longer fashionable to preach on the “four last things” during advent. death, judgement, hell and heaven are not easy to digest for ...

Gavin Ashenden

the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call him emmanuel, a name which means ‘god is with us’.  in the final we...

Fr Mark Vickers

on the feast day of our lady of guadalupe earlier this week, pope francis, celebrating in the vatican, offered some helpful insights into ho...

Gavin Ashenden

one of the paradoxes of the modern christmas is that we spend a terrific amount on the celebration before the feast and then terminate it ab...

Melanie McDonagh

sweden is far north, cold and secular. yet, every year on the 13 december an italian girl who became a canonised saint of the catholic churc...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

liberation sexuality is no more successful than liberation theology , writes gavin ashenden “the vatican is losing the largest catholic coun...

Gavin Ashenden