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Serenhedd James

March 01, 2023
On a perishingly cold day I find myself talking with Harry Christophers, the world-acclaimed conductor and director of The Sixteen, about Lent. It has long struck me that most people seem to think that when it comes to liturgy this is a boring time of year. That wasn’t necessarily my experience when I helped run
February 01, 2023
Candlemas already. The hampers have been emptied; the cards have been taken down; the paper chains made patiently on Christmas Eve committed hara-kiri weeks ago. Meanwhile I have finally got to grips with a splendid gift kindly sent by the lovely people at the Catholic Mothers Apostolate. “The Catholic Card Game” is a cleaned-up ecclesiological
January 04, 2023
The Herald’s Deputy Editor joins the Magi as they make their way to Bethlehem, and takes the opportunity to reflect on their journey – and ours. Snow really does bring out my inner imp. I’ve known it in Wales, in London, in Oxford, in the United States – the impulse to mischief has always been
January 01, 2023
Following the star to find the holy, human, divine child
December 02, 2022
The grande dame des belles-lettres talks to Serenhedd James
December 02, 2022
Searching for constancy at the end of a year of change
November 10, 2022
Victorian Crusaders: British and Irish Volunteers in the Papal Army, 1860-1870 by Nicholas Schofield Helion & Co, 223 pages, £29.95 If one wants to understand why the shibboleth of Papal Infallibility intruded itself into European affairs in the last third of the 19th century, then one has to take seriously the matter of Italian reunification,
October 12, 2022
Association with the Catholic Herald gets Serenhedd James sent to the Tower The tube train lurched just at the wrong moment, but Cardinal Nichols graciously forbore an ungainly obeisance. Much has been made of Pope Francis’s regular use of public transport when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires; it is good to know that Londoners
September 24, 2022
How an in-school teacher-training placement inspired Serenhedd James
September 23, 2022
If only the re-orderers of churches had been guided by Roger Scruton
June 28, 2022
We’re all in the same boat, as St Paul reminds us
June 28, 2022
Scottish Catholics had to wait for nearly 30 years after their coreligionists in England and Wales for the restoration of their own hierarchy of diocesan bishops. It was not until the late 1860s that Rome decided that something definitive must be done about the state of the Church in Scotland. Writing in the journal Recusant
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