Travel & Pilgrimage

March Issue – A Fighting Order

leaders the order of malta has the right to control its affairs walk this way to level up britain the us church must encourage freedom from ...
The Catholic Herald

To follow thee more nearly: being drawn in to the road to Our Lord’s Crucifixion

during lent many of us will pray the 14 stations of the cross, especially on good friday. they are a popular devotion taking us from pontius...
Patrick van der Vorst

On Pilgrimage with Sir Bill Cash

where would you go?  i would go to much wenlock and wenlock abbey because it is the site of saint milburga, who was an eighth-century a...
The Catholic Herald

Faith amidst the ruins

deep in the iraqi desert, near the highway leading to the saudi arabian border, lie the ruins of al-qusair church, the oldest church in iraq...
Tom Westcott

My road to Mount Athos

the sun was setting to the west as i stood upon a vantage point known to the byzantine residents of constantinople as hagios demetrios. it w...
Mark Jenkins

Not taking a shine to Catholicism

closing soon in paris is the most recent rendezvous for the west’s occasional romance with the islamic world. ‘cartier and islamic art: in s...
Lucien de Guise

Unwelcome alteration

there is a folk history of the reformation in england which goes roughly as follows: in the years immediately before the break with rome, th...
Niall Gooch

On social graces

if you tend your garden yourself, there is always a danger that all you will see as you walk around it is a worryingly long list of jobs. th...
charlie-hart

Christmas Issue

leaders a lockdownless christmas eu ruling over abortion harms us all the father’s christmas presence diary  –  lady antonia frase...
The Catholic Herald

The genial prince who could stir Rome up

fra’ matthew festing who has died aged 71 in valletta, malta, was the 79th grand master of the sovereign military order of malta. he was the...
John Martin Robinson