Soul

antonia fraser someone once said, channelling shakespeare’s hamlet: “there’s nothing good nor bad, but christmas makes it worse.” i can only...

The Catholic Herald

“my god, it is hard to be chained and receive blows but i live this moment as you present it to me.” such was the prayer of sister gloria ce...

John Pontifex

christmas is for many of us a nightmare: relatives, trying not to buy them the same present again, sticking to a budget, and only going beyo...

Daniel Frampton

the man who invented christmas was the irresistible title of a book published in 2008, about charles dickens and his role in shaping or revi...

Niall Gooch

this year marks the centenary of gk chesterton’s reception into the catholic church. it had been anticipated by some of his most catholic wr...

The Catholic Herald

it occurred to me, after i had scattered a handful of earth on the small coffin, six feet below, that my world had changed forever. not in a...

Serenhedd James

the uk is officially post-christian. it is “the first time in a census of england and wales that fewer than half of the population have desc...

Laura Perrins

“democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” insisted winston churchill. less famously, he went on to say that th...

Gavin Ashenden

i recently returned from a pilgrimage with the british association of the order of malta to the holy land. our visits to the holy places rem...

Mgr John Armitage

(photo credit: marcin mazur) pope francis has appointed the rector of the marian shrine at walsingham as a new auxiliary bishop of southwark...

Simon Caldwell