Pastor Iuventus

I had been due to arrive in Milan around lunchtime but, thanks to the world’s self-appointed “favourite” airline, I didn’t reach there until evening....

Over the weekend I provided cover in a parish which had recently lost its resident priest. I was hearing about this sad situation from...

Something I read as a teenager has always stayed with me. A French Carmelite, when asked about her motivation for entering the cloister, replied...

If architecture can be frozen music, it can also surely capture something of the soul of faith. The upward soaring vaults of Burgos Cathedral,...

On the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, I reflect on the darkness engulfing Ireland. It is the feast of feasts because, unlike what...

On Monday I celebrated the newly instituted feast of Mary, Mother of the Church. I think it is a beautiful title, but I would...

There is a comic novel by AN Wilson called Kindly Light in which Norman Shotover, a priest from the fictional Catholic Institute of Alfonso...

I have been asked to give a talk on Benedict’s XVI’s theology of the liturgy. I am not quite sure why, since I am...

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week III Sunday, May 13: Seventh Sunday of Easter Acts 1:15-17, 20A, 20C-26; Ps 103; 1 Jn 4:11-16; Jn 17:11B-19...

I offered my Mass intention on Monday for the parents of Alfie Evans. It is almost impossible to imagine what they have been through....

For my last days in Australia I stayed at Mary MacKillop Place in north Sydney, on the opposite side of the Harbour Bridge from...

On the Third Sunday of Easter I visit St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, for High Mass. I was last in the city for the World...