How the earliest known relics of an English saint came to light
March 12, 2020
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The princess St Eanswythe, who died around 660, came from one of the most important families in Anglo-Saxon England. She
St Eanswythe helps dispel the anti-Catholic myth of relic fraud
March 12, 2020
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Before this week even people with an active interest in Anglo-Saxon Christianity may never have heard of St Eanswythe, the patron saint
A synod on synodality risks being self-referential
March 12, 2020
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The seventh anniversary of Pope Francis (March 13) falls at a time when the pontificate’s agenda has run into difficulty
A thief, vagabond – and daily Mass-goer
March 12, 2020
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“An unpleasant man with a dreadful lifestyle” was how one angry reader of the Oldie described Wilfred De’Ath, who died
Lenten reflection: Seeing beyond your weaknesses
March 12, 2020
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Once we have identified our predominant fault, we need to identify the virtue opposed to it. For this, we need
The cardinal’s clandestine Mass: how Lithuania survived totalitarianism
March 12, 2020
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Just outside Kaunas, Lithuania’s second city, on a hillside in a residential area stands a house belonging to the family of
There’s a silver lining to the cancellation of St Patrick’s Day parades
March 12, 2020
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It’s St Patrick’s Day next week and many of the traditional events will be either cancelled or reduced, because of
Letters: China’s latest atrocity; Communion and the coronavirus
March 12, 2020
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The Vatican-China deal should be torn up SIR – We the undersigned are writing to express our burning anxiety at the
We’re right to feel a longing for beauty
March 12, 2020
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You can’t judge a book by its cover, we say, meaning that no man should be judged by his clothes,
Why opera can’t get enough of nuns
March 12, 2020
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In the world of opera, nuns are frequent visitors and fair game. They’re exotic, not infrequently neurotic, blistering with fervour
Catholic women were not all ‘underdogs’
March 12, 2020
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Women of the Vatican By Lynda Telford Amberley, 320pp, £20/$34.95 Lynda Telford claims to defend “the underdogs who have otherwise
The strange twilight of British conservatism
March 12, 2020
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Small Men on the Wrong Side of History By Ed West Constable, 352pp, £20/$20.70 Even before the death of Sir Roger