SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
October 11, 2021
Minding our language
October 11, 2021
English teacher Roy Peachey on the best way to tackle ‘chronological snobbery’
Reading the Runes
October 11, 2021
Weathering the storm with the subtle theology in the poetry of George Mackay Brown
When everyone went to church (but not everyone did)
October 11, 2021
Compulsory attendance in the Middle Ages presented its own set of problems
Vocations need not be consigned to the past
October 11, 2021
In this issue, we celebrates the extraordinary life and vocation of Dom Joseph Coombe-Tennant, who died at the age of 76 in 1989. His mother was a noted psychic and he was born – named Henry – as a result of her conviction that a former spiritualist mentor wanted her to have a child by
Mass appeal should be for everyone
October 11, 2021
One of the Pope’s titles is that of pontifex, or bridge builder. It is an aspect of his office that Pope Francis might reflect on when it comes to his relationship with liturgical conservatives.   Most recently, in his meeting in Bratislava with Slovakian Jesuits, the Pope addressed his decision to restrict celebrations of the
Tessa’s Feasts: herring and monkfish for St Andrew
October 11, 2021
Herring and monkfish prepared in honour 
of St Andrew, the patron of saint of fishing
Mist and moments of delight
October 11, 2021
However bleak and overshadowed life might seem, lurking among the ruins are moments of true beauty –proof that ‘nothing pleaseth but rare accidents’
Scotland’s Spiritual Isle
October 11, 2021
William Cash travels to the holy island of Iona where celebrating Mass today owes much to the mother of Princess Diana
Pope discusses climate change with Nancy Pelosi as abortion storm rages in California
October 11, 2021
Pope Francis has met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat politician often at the centre of controversy over her support for abortion. The Vatican had released no information about what the Pope and Mrs Pelosi discussed together on Saturday in line with its usual custom for papal meetings with non-heads of state. But it
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