Travel & Pilgrimage

The entrepreneurs with a higher calling

is it possible to be a good christian and a successful entrepreneur? the bible encourages believers to exploit their talents, which surely i...

Poetic Justice for Geoffrey Chaucer

the furore over the poet of the canterbury tales being culled from english literature courses taught at various universities, in an attempt ...

The Catholic Herald

Beauty and the Damned

on 23 february 1821, john keats died of tuberculosis in a house beside the spanish steps in rome, aged just 25. as a lover of the romantic p...

Spring Diary: Missing the ducks of Highgate

it is early february and the snows have finally come. in december i long for this seasonal variety, only to wish its swift departure barely ...

Andreas Campomar

Albrecht Dürer – a traveller's tale

when the national gallery announced their spring show dürer’s journeys: travels of a renaissance artist more than a year ago, they could not...

Here be Dragons

for my far-flung readers, some context: the uk is in a second full lockdown. unlike lockdown-lite in november, schools are closed, “non-esse...

When I Was a Young Monk in Despair

when i was a very young monk, just 23 and in the monastery for only a year, a reading from thomas merton at our midday office created a grea...

Pilgrimage: An evolving presence in a changing culture

april brings its buds and showers, said chaucer, “thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.” indeed they did. his pilgrims from southwark t...

Caring for Second Childhood

a sadness close to grief, but approaching horror, pervades our thinking about nursing homes — they combine the anxious atmosphere of the hos...

Nicholas-Frankovich

Architect’s requiem

the “catholic architect” is in danger of extinction. it has now been 20 years since a catholic church of note has been built in britain. but...