Travel & Pilgrimage

Rome is where the heart is

by any standards, the news that michael nazir-ali had been received into the catholic faith is stunning. the former church of england bishop...

Campaign begins to recognise Brother Michael Strode, monk who founded the HCPT, as a 'modern-day saint'

a campaign is to be launched to canonise a monk who dedicated his life to taking disabled people to lourdes. a mass celebrated at our lady o...

‘Cop26 has to be be a turning point’

thousands of catholics took to the streets of the uk to show their support for policies to halt climate change and reverse ecological degrad...

RIP Fra' Matthew Festing (1949-2021)

on friday, the grand magistry of the order of malta announced the death of fra’ matthew festing, the 79th grand master of the sovereign orde...

Catholics invited to make pilgrimage in Dante’s footsteps in anniversary year

ravenna, italy, nov 11, 2021 / 04:20 am the poet dante famously traveled through hell, purgatory, and paradise in his masterpiece the “divin...

Who was Charles de Foucauld?

vatican city, nov 9, 2021 / 10:30 am the vatican on tuesday announced that the canonization of bl. charles de foucauld and six others will t...

Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis to visit Canada in 'pilgrimage of healing and reconciliation' with Indigenous peoples

vatican city, oct 27, 2021 / 09:00 am the vatican has announced that pope francis is considering an invitation to visit canada in light of t...

Diary: Petronella Wyatt on carrying her inner child

sometimes i think that god is very far away. i recall that the protestant martyr anne askew said, quoting christ, that he saw ever...

Petronella Wyatt

Travelling together?

i write these words on 9 october, as the synod on synodality officially launches its two-year process of… well, i’m not sure just what. you ...

The Aegean paradise of the Pope’s island

my taxi driver in the cycladic island of syros is a bearlike character called stelios. he gives me a bearlike hug; maybe this is because i c...