There are two things I try to do on a daily basis, whether in the height of summer or the depth of winter: go for a daily swim and go to daily Mass. As a Member of Parliament based in Westminster, I am blessed to be very well served by the swimming club in the

The young people hoping to become adults this year are facing some serious road blocks. Last week, a 30 minute documentary aired on BBC Panorama called Has Covid Stolen My Future? The programme interviewed young people and graduates across the country who can find no work or who have had paid traineeships taken away. Unemployment

A government-backed advertisement campaign encouraging people to consider careers in cyber security has been removed after angry backlash. The advertisement pictured a ballerina alongside the caption: “Fatima’s Next Job Could be in Cyber (she just doesn’t know it yet)”. The campaign, released by government programme CyberFirst, was criticised for undermining the Arts. The advertisement came

3,000 students across the country are in forced isolation, threatened with fines and arrest if they try to leave their halls of accommodation- even those who have been tested for Covid and found to be negative. At MMU (Manchester Metropolitan University), 1,700 students have been told to quarantine for a fortnight – their halls patrolled

Our list brings together the brightest and best artistic whizzes, wordsmiths, musicians and players of the last century, whose Catholic faith – or loss of it – has defined their careers. Edited by Olenka Hamilton

In our annual survey, we identify Britain’s most influential Catholics from the worlds of business, philanthropy, politics, charity, education and media. These are our Top 75 making a difference today. Introduction by Olenka Hamilton

The furore over the poet of The Canterbury Tales being culled from English Literature courses taught at various universities, in an attempt at “decolonising” the syllabus, is the worst sort of cultural censorship. The idea of scrapping medieval literature, and cancelling Geoffrey Chaucer, in favour of “modules on race and sexuality”, is mistaken. The son

It has been a long time since American Catholics could expect to see the country’s president attending weekly mass, but it’s happening now. Every Sunday, President Biden goes to mass. He speaks openly about his faith. He paid tribute in his autobiography to the influence of nuns and priests as he was growing up in

Historian and expert on the Tudors Alison Weir on taking the pilgrim road

Where would you go? The world that I would love to visit is The Holy Land. St Jerome said “five gospels record the life of Jesus. Four you will find in the books and one you will find in the land they called Holy. Read the fifth gospel and the world of the four will

Learning from the children of Fatima Last week a couple of acquaintances, a brother and sister, were found to be Covid-19 positive, although fortunately asymptomatic thus far. Faced with the sudden possibility of death, people often have a change of outlook, re-evaluate their lives in the light of a realisation of their mortality. My thoughts

It’s tempting, at least to the molecular biologists amongst us, to admire the cunning of this particularly slippery virus. It seems to exude evil in every perfectly tiny detail. Yet while it’s killing people, it’s not doing so intentionally. Its sole evolved purpose is to transmit itself between unsuspecting bats: even in a purely Darwinian

Pope Francis is to end his live-streamed Masses next week as Italy re-opens churches.

The Diocese of Buffalo is to end all financial support from priests with proven abuse allegations

"The culture wars are real," Cardinal Pell has said in his first major interview after leaving prison.

Priests need our help this Easter SIR – Can I point out that our parish priests are going to have to do without their Easter collection this year, which for some of them makes up a substantial part of their annual income? It would be nice if readers could perhaps organise local collections in their