Travel & Pilgrimage

Budapest diary: Painful lessons from a city of beauty

it was very late when i arrived in budapest, but a consolation to be in a hotel close to the danube. to me, there is something sacred about ...

Pope Francis welcomed to Mongolia: Chinese Christians make perilous journey

rome – a group of chinese catholics were so thrilled to see the pope close to home that they invented excuses to make the trip to mongolia, ...

How good was Good Queen Bess?

an ex-anglican re-learns history. it is surprising how many things we accept second hand and assume they are true without questioning them. ...

Joseph Roth: Riddles and reinvention

endless flight: the life of joseph roth keiron pim granta, £25, 544 pages it is easiest to imagine joseph roth – the most elegaic writer of ...

The Catholic response to protest

piety and prayer may be more effective than demonstrations on the streets. in wareham, dorset, there is an anglican curate, the revd hilary ...

Angel voices, ever singing: Aquinas would have been fascinated by experiments with photons

in the catholic church there are many reminders of the reality of angels: at the beginning of mass we ask the angels to pray for us; we cry ...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

Portugal is facing the new world once again

with its sixth cardinal on the way and a papal visit to lisbon  last month, a new special relationship between portugal  and the v...

Listening to whom? Time to hear from those affected by easily-abused anti-blasphemy laws

rome – in just a little over a month, the curtain will rise on a keenly anticipated synod of bishops on synodality in rome. though notorious...

We need to do more to educate young Catholics in the Faith

i have just returned from lourdes where we (representatives of the brentwood diocese) joined the annual diocesan pilgrimage along with sever...

Lisbon notebook: Pilgrims in the park

saturday 5th august parque tejo trancão, lisbon – from around 4pm the transition from bustling racket to eerie stillness on the streets of l...