Travel & Pilgrimage

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...

Diary: How to make movies in lockdown

diary here we are again: the first day of another lockdown. i’ve been making a to-do list all day, which is identical to the one i made last...

Elizabeth Hurley

Pope Francis: Coronavirus pandemic has ‘exposed inefficiencies’ in care of the sick

vatican city, jan 12, 2021 / 04:45 am mt (cna).- pope francis said on tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic had “exposed inefficiencies...

Notre-Dame reopens: but has the quest to restore its beauty succeeded?

because the hunchback of notre-dame was discovered on quasimodo sunday – hence his name – people often think that victor hugo’s novel notre-...

Serenhedd James