Travel & Pilgrimage

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott 1880-1960

giles gilbert scott is best known these days by the british public either for his k2 and k6 red telephone boxes (now rapidly vanishing from ...

On pilgrimage with Joanna Bogle

where would you go? i’d go to walsingham. i love it. i’ve been on genuine pilgrimages, on foot, by coach – which you can keep; i loathe coac...

The Catholic Herald

Muscular Christianity

eights week in oxford always heralds the approach of midsummer. the various college boats strive to outdo each other on the river, with triu...

Serenhedd James

Last Call to become a Herald Compostela pilgrim this Holy Jubilee Year

there are still a few places left for our mini-camino in late july in which patrons and readers can pack in all that is best about the famou...

The Paraclete

it will not be until the last sunday in june that we return to green vestments and our regular cycle of readings from st luke’s gospel. the ...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

A glimpse of heaven at Sir John Soane's Museum

architectural drawings: hidden masterpieces from sir john soane’s museum by dr frances sands batsford press, £35, 159 pages "we’ll make heav...

Serenhedd James

The restoration of two Bentley churches

in the 19th century, the “potteries” in notting dale, west london, were an area of considerable degradation, with many poor irish catholic i...

On Pilgrimage with Terry Eagleton

where would you go? saint-maximin-la-sainte-baume, a village not far from aix-en-provence. its basilica is dedicated to mary magdalene and u...

The Catholic Herald

The Herald’s Guide to Retreats

ampleforth abbey ampleforth, yorkshire founded in 1802, ampleforth abbey is home to the largest benedictine community in the uk, who run a s...

Olenka Hamilton

Chaos or Christianity

it was evelyn waugh, writing in a british newspaper, who warned his contemporaries how stark the choice was that faced them. ninety years la...