Travel & Pilgrimage

SVP names Sarah Barber as youth services director

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

Catholics in Holy Land to Celebrate “Peace Day for the East”

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...

Profiting from Penance

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

Brothers in alms

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...

The pilgrimage of a lifetime

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...

Unidentified ecclesiastical objects

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

On Pilgrimage with Mark Hix

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...

The Catholic Herald

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Appeals for Peace & Justice

the latin patriarch of jerusalem is urging catholics around the world to pray for “peace and justice” as violence continues in the holy land...

Roncesvalles: The Crossroads of History and Legend

enveloped in the silence of the deep, green valley on the spanish side of the pyrenees mountains where it nestles, the royal collegiate chur...

Curtis Williams

Pope warns of 'spiral of death and destruction' in Holy Land conflict

following the recitation of the regina coeli on sunday, pope francis denounced violence in the holy land, warning that the conflict could de...