Travel & Pilgrimage

like the emperor nero, the british museum knows how to put on a show. that hangar of a space bearing the sainsbury name can sometimes overwh...

Lucien de Guise

goodness knows what non-catholics, let alone atheists, must make of it all when visiting seville. you can’t move in the capital of southern ...

James Jeffrey

the arab conquests by justin marozzi apollo, £18.99, 256 pages  between 634 and 750 ad, arabs created an empire larger than those of al...

Philip Mansel

nazir afzal is the new head of the cssa, the church’s safeguarding body, a role he took on only recently. he’s a muslim: it was a widely wel...

Melanie McDonagh

graham greene once remarked that the biggest problem of our age lies in the fact that we have lost the ability to believe in miracles and th...

Arabella Byrne

countries where leprosy is endemic have some of the lowest rates for covid-19 vaccinations in the world, says the st francis leprosy guild. ...

Staff Reporter

two catholic churches on indigenous land in western canada burnt to the ground on saturday, less than a week after two other nearby churches...

Staff Reporter

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