How the Old Mass came to Balham
St Bede’s has become one of London’s great liturgical churches. The departing parish priest explains how it all began
What I learned on the Women’s March
Stuart Reid joins ‘jolly middle-class women’ on the Trump demo
Margate is worth a Latin Mass
Like Margate, the Church faces difficulties as a result of changes made in the first half of the 1960s
The Orthodox guide to surviving Advent
There’s no need to adopt their fasting rules, but we can learn quite a bit from the Russians’ preparations for Christmas
Let’s stop whingeing and moaning, and instead give thanks for the city of brotherly love
Philadelphia glorifies God in a beautiful autumn surprise
Why we should love and respect France, the Eldest Daughter of the Church and our new best friend
The new defence deal is a triumph. Many will feel it does not go far enough
Mel Gibson may be an alcoholic, a sedevacantist and an anti-Semite – but he has my sympathy
Hollywood has turned against him: he has been dropped from the cast of Hangover 2
Jack Valero is absolutely right when he says that the English media are not anti-Catholic
Let’s not forget that Rupert Murdoch is a papal knight
I’m at Hyde Park, trying to be tolerant. Thank God for the beautiful Mass this morning
I’d better pull myself together and get with the programme
