Travel & Pilgrimage

Are Catholics really fleeing to the fields to escape modernity's mess?

if, like me, you spend a little too much time on catholic twitter – or should i say x – then you might in the past few weeks have scrolled p...

Portia Berry-Kilby

Bishop-elect of Liverpool said life flashed before his eyes when he learned of his appointment

  a liverpool priest has described how he saw his life was flashing before his eyes like “a drowning man” the moment he was told that p...

Breakspear: The English Pope, by RAJ Waddingham

breakspear: the english pope raj waddingham the history press, £25, 304 pages after a few years of any papacy it inevitably happens: people ...

Why we need to turn to Eucharistic Adoration to find hope

when pope francis announced the jubilee for 2025,  he  said “we must fan the flame of hope that has been given us.” he explai...

Archbishop John Wilson

On Pilgrimage With: Anita Boniface, writer and chaplaincy volunteer

where would you go? a place i’d like to revisit on pilgrimage is aylesford priory in kent. i often went there as a child and young adult wit...

The Catholic Herald

The realignment continues

it was nearly 30 years ago when cardinal basil hume acknowledged almost excitedly that a realignment was taking place within english christi...

Cardinal Zuppi: can no special 'signs' really be read into TLM pilgrimage participation?

according to cardinal matteo zuppi, there are no special “signs” to be read into his attendance and presiding over vespers for a recent annu...

Why young people love the Chartres pilgrimage

why did a record number of people go on this year’s paris to chartres pilgrimage? and why were so many of the estimated 18,000 - 20,000 pilg...

Parish boundaries and what it takes to be a 'proper' parishioner

a question that seems to generate a great deal of discussion and debate in one way or another, and one that most certainly generates a wide ...

Heart over head: Engaging with the Catechism, one paragraph at a time

it’s not that i’m jealous of fr mike schmitz and his success in producing an app that takes you through the catechism in one year – and whic...