Travel & Pilgrimage

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...

James Jeffrey

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

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

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

Michael Hodges

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

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

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

Gavin Ashenden

john goddard see his life as a pilgrimage. it has taken him into anglican orders, first as an anglo-catholic priest and as the anglican bish...

Simon Caldwell

navigating the relationship between science and faith can be something of a minefield. fr georges lemaître (whom i wrote about last month) w...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

"if you believe in a loving god, why do babies die of leukemia?” i’d never engaged seriously before with the question, but when faced with h...

Mark Dowd