“Dowry’’ has a strange, medieval ring about it. I first heard the word in the Prayer for England at Sunday

I am sure saying so will not win me many friends, but I wish clergy and laity alike would stop

The full moon shines high above, casting its lustre on the strange landscape and silhouetting the jagged ridges of the

Canon Law and the Ceremonial of Bishops require that when sacred places have been violated by sinful, scandalous actions, acts

With Sunday’s Gospel of Jesus in the wilderness, tempted by the Devil, the Church reveals the familiar topography of Lent.

It’s a year since the Vatican’s summit on the sexual abuse crisis and almost 10 years since Benedict XVI, following

It was only recently that I realised I apparently get easier and richer insights while in the shower than when

Various things conspire to bring on the January blues, like the fact that I have paid several hundred pounds in

As usual, my monastic Christmas, celebrated with the community of St Cecilia Abbey, Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, brought

Frantically last-minute Christmas shopping, I was arrested by a sign in a shop window: “Don’t forget yourself this Christmas.” It

“O admirabile commercium: O marvellous exchange! Man’s Creator has become man, born of a Virgin. We have been made sharers