Recently I got drawn into a Facebook discussion about how downtrodden women have been throughout the ages – always at

I have just been reading the Telegraph obituary of Dorothy Maclean, co-founder of the New Age Findhorn Community. I suspect

Ignatius Press has sent me From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church,

I have been rereading Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (2005) by the late Sir Roger Scruton, who died in

St Valentine’s Day has become associated with romantic love, even though Valentine was an early Roman martyr – that is,

In Dana Gioia’s thoughtful essay, “To Witness Truth Uncompromised; Modern Martyrs”, one of his essays collected under the title The

The other Sunday my son brought back from his parish church a free booklet entitled “33 Days to Morning Glory”.

It will soon be Lent and I have been reading Characters of the Passion by the late Fulton J Sheen,

I recently watched a friend die. In hospital, receiving palliative care, his life had been mainly one of poor choices