Travel & Pilgrimage

pope st paul vi receives the archbishop of canterbury, michael ramsey, in the sistine chapel on 24 march 1966. (keystone/hulton archive/gett...

Michael Duggan

caryll houselander was a mystic, religious writer, artist, and notorious eccentric with both a great capacity for work and a willingness to ...

Lessons from the Archives

cover image: chalice and paten of o cebreiro, by fcpb - own work, cc by 3.0   the doubts of a bohemian priest travelling to rome on pil...

Curtis Williams

cover image: newly appointed svp  director of youth services sarah barber, courtesy of svp   the st vincent de paul society (svp) ...

Staff Reporter

catholics throughout the middle east will observe a “peace day for the east” on june 27, with a special mass in each of the countries served...

Staff Reporter

the new british museum show, thomas becket: murder and the making of a saint , reveals the religious propaganda machine that existed to myth...

William Cash

the entrance to the hospital of st cross, next to the st cross symondians cricket club on the outskirts of winchester, is tucked away down a...

William Cash

the ways in which we use the word pilgrimage have changed so much during my lifetime. and yet, i realise increasingly, the core of what it a...

Peter Stanford

anglican (and some catholic) friends usually regard post-war catholic churches with a degree of horror. the catholic church in this country ...

Michael Hodges

where would you go?   a few years ago i was due to go to southern india. we’d planned to stay somewhere quite remote that you could onl...

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