Every year for more than 30 years, GK Chesterton wrote five or six articles and a number of poems about Christmas. Chesterton’s friend and biographer Maisie Ward once wrote that she had an ambition to collect all of Chesterton’s writings on Christmas into one volume. But it was the writer Marie Smith who first assembled

Christmas, we all know (despite the common belief of non-Christians), is not the most important feast of the Christian year. We know that that is Easter, and that it is only in the Resurrection of Christ that the story of our salvation comes to its climax and its fulfilment. But Christmas does have about it

The Maltese bishops' guidelines on Communion mean that secular culture has triumphed over the Church

How does one begin to enter into such a mind as that of Joseph Ratzinger? How does one enter – more importantly – into such a spirituality, one at the same time so simple and yet so profound? These are large questions: the answer to them has been made accessible by the journalist Peter Seewald,

Things on the campaign trail are getting ugly (as well as grossly expensive). Is this all really unavoidable?

We republish the following blog, originally published on September 20, 2010, to mark the fifth anniversary of Benedict's papal visit to Britain

The Church, rightly perceived, is a thing of divine wonder, even though it so often looks like a thing of earth

This Pope doesn’t ‘do’ doctrine. His particular vocation as Supreme Pontiff may not be established for many years

This sort of thing used to happen all the time: are we now to expect a renewal of the Tablet’s old anti-traditionalist hostility?

Are we witnessing the beginnings of an international campaign of defiance against the Catholic moral law?

The ‘silent’ Pope Benedict has ways of being heard; and he is still being listened to

Underage girls are being fitted with contraceptive implants without parental consent: this has to stop