Fr Dominic Allain

As one of the Quarter Days of the medieval year, Michaelmas had important significance for rents, leases and employment. If you are preparing to...

“Vanità di vanità, ogni cos’ e vanità,” we sang to a hauntingly sad melody. St Philip Neri used to make his novices sing this...

I suspect that the clergy had a fundamentally different experience of the Covid lockdown from the laity. We may speak airily of how “our...

His eyes stare out of the grainy black-and-white photo with an intensity I found frightening when, as a child, I first saw it on...

I am hoping that one of the first things that can be swiftly restored to our faith practice is the Sacrament of Reconciliation. A...

There’s a Carry On pun in which Kenneth Williams’s highly strung character’s excuse that he was “once a weak man” is interpreted as though...

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

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

The full moon shines high above, casting its lustre on the strange landscape and silhouetting the jagged ridges of the mountains so that they...

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

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

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