Travel & Pilgrimage

Out of the Shadows: walking through the night with St John Henry Newman

oxford - “when we know how many good souls would gladly be catholics if they could,” the wispy white haired oratorian priest spoke softly in...

A Hebridean wander with Kenneth Clark

at school in the late 1970s, practically the only television we were allowed to watch was kenneth clark’s civilisation on sunday afternoons ...

Pope Francis asks Catholics to join prayer for peace in the Holy Land

pope francis thanked god for the cease-fire agreed to in the holy land, adding a prayer “for the pursuit of paths of dialogue and peace.” he...

Radical Romantics: Reimagining the Rossettis at London's Tate Britain

beige walls, beige wood, beige carpet. the almost monochrome décor in the first room of the rossettis at london's tate britain is so reminis...

Tales of St James

saints and sinners, miracles and miscreants, and even old scratch himself … the literature associated with the pilgrimage to santiago de com...

Curtis Williams

High Societies

the british museum’s peru is a land of hallucinogenic flora and highly diverse fauna, albeit without paddington or any other bears. it’s a l...

Lucien de Guise

Awake in the wilderness

lent is the annual retreat of the church. for 40 days, the people of god go into the wilderness. they follow in the steps of their lord and ...

Dom Xavier Perrin

Archdiocese of Birmingham gets 'episcopal twins' as two new bishops ordained

two new auxiliary bishops have been ordained by the archbishop of birmingham in st chad’s cathedral during a ceremony attended by some big n...

The Catholic Herald

The unofficial First Lady of New Orleans: a profile in faith of Gayle Benson

leading us catholic philanthropist gayle benson is a pillar of her new orleans community. amanda bowman and william cash ask her about faith...

The eternal tourist trap

as a young augustinian monk on his first trip abroad, martin luther was clearly disappointed by rome, remarking that “if there is a hell the...