Travel & Pilgrimage

VISION, the Lourdes musical, finally reaches London

a musical that brings to life the miraculous events of st bernadette’s visions in the town of lourdes, southwestern france, is set to hit lo...
Thomas Edwards

Bishop of Shrewsbury makes video appeal for faith in Jubilee Year

the bishop of shrewsbury has encouraged the catholics to hand on the faith they have received in a pastoral letter and video message which t...
The Catholic Herald

The brothers and sisters of Jesus

many catholics feel very anxious about certain passages in the gospels which seem to suggest that, far from preserving her perpetual virgini...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Rites of passage: Rome's Holy Doors and Jubilee years

on sunday, 5 january, at the start of 2025, pope francis opened the final holy door in rome for the jubilee year in the grand basilica of sa...
Thomas Edwards

On pilgrimage to Tolstoy's grave, with author and presenter Barnaby Rogerson

where would you go? to the grass-covered grave, a lovely bump in the ground, where tolstoy is buried in the woods of his old family estate a...
The Catholic Herald

Jesus's Presentation in the Temple transformed the ancient rites into a new covenant

o gates, lift high your heads; grow higher, ancient doors. (ps 24: 7 ) the jews presented their first-born in the temple forty days after bi...
Fr David Howell

Concerns about Pope’s stamina for Holy Year ahead raised by first Jubilee event

the first major event of the jubilee of hope that occurred last week highlighted both the significant challenges for pope francis during the...
Elise Allen

Full to the brim: Trusting in Mary's command

‘now there were six stone water jars there for the jewish rites of purification, each holding seventy or one hundred litres’ (john 2:6). in ...
Fr David Howell

Half a million pilgrims already through Holy Door of Saint Peter's in Rome

already more than half a million pilgrims have come to participate in the jubilee of hope since pope francis inaugurated the 2025 jubilee ye...
Elise Allen

The mysterious Easterners who dreamt God's dream

and being warned in a dream not to return to herod, they departed to their own country by another way. (matthew 2:12) at the end of sunday’s...
Fr David Howell