Even with all the regulations, it is such a relief to be back at Mass
July 6, 2020
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Livestreamed Masses have been wonderful. But Catholicism is, after all, a touchy-feely religion
Why is a Conservative government pushing for no-fault divorce?
June 8, 2020
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The Conservatives are bent on fast-tracking no-fault divorce; you have to wonder, what are the Tories for?
Galleries are putting their finest paintings online. Here are my top picks
June 3, 2020
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Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas, 1601. Potsdam Bildergalerie This is the most disconcertingly carnal take on the encounter in the Gospel of
Catholic bishops didn’t rush to judgment on Cummings. Wise move
May 26, 2020
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The CofE hierarchy rushed to judgment before the full story had emerged. They should have counted to ten
Let’s bring back proper Christian names
May 6, 2020
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X Æ A-12? Bring back the Napoleonic code
The reaction to Benedict’s ‘dictatorship’ comments just proves his point
May 5, 2020
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The humanist ideologies have taken over the culture, and it’s not a worldview that welcomes dissent
The German bishops are right to acknowledge their predecessors’ sins
May 4, 2020
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If all the hierarchy had condemned the regime, the effects on German Catholics would have been incalculable
‘Farewell great painter…’ Why my favourite epitaph is in a Chiswick churchyard
January 23, 2020
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Graveyards are, for those of a sombre bent, a useful way of reflecting on mortality. And the older they are,
The nation saying yes to babies
December 12, 2019
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One of the most striking policies of the government of Hungary, under its controversial prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is that
What I found helpful about ‘mindfulness’
November 7, 2019
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My only experience of Buddhism was during a visit to Bhutan years ago, to visit a friend who was doing
The artist who saw the prophet Ezekiel in Peckham
September 19, 2019
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The best known of Blake’s works is that bit of his poem on Milton which we know as Jerusalem –
I’m thankful for the sacrament that Luther and Calvin rejected
August 29, 2019
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My mother received the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick last Sunday. I was away when she was anointed