The poet Elizabeth Jennings reviews a book of reminiscences about C. S. Lewis, whom she heard lecture when a student at St Anne’s college. The book, Light on C. S. Lewis, included contributions from Owen Barfield, Stella Gibbons, Austin Farrer, Kathleen Raine, and Neville Coghill, but not J. R. R. Tolkien.  Jennings — whose New

Those who want the Latin Mass “only wish to be part of that ‘great orchestra’ of ‘unity in variety’ which, as Pope Francis said, reflects the true catholicity of the Church.” Many with leadership roles in the Church are keen to exclude them.

Anthony Cazalet explores the rich and pungent history of monastic cheesemaking

For a century, modern Irish Catholic writers have pushed against their faith 
– and yet drawn on it, too

Beth Harmon is profoundly wounded from being rejected by her parents and by others who should have loved and accepted her. The orphaned chess prodigy who is the subject of Netflix’s new original series, The Queen’s Gambit, turns to drugs and alcohol not only to cope, but to play chess and win.

There is so much bad faith and general dishonesty in public discourse over contentious issues, and particularly when people argue about abortion, that it is refreshing when someone tells the unvarnished truth about what they believe. This happened in the white-hot abortion debate in Argentina, which ended last night as the nation’s senate approved a

Chapter House columnists and contributors to this page share their favorite Christmas story, book, movie, or music.

Fr James Bradley remembers a transformative evening in Hyde Park

‘A lot of people nowadays want to come to a decision – not only on criminal matters – without giving people the benefit of the doubt’

Long before its collapse became evident, three writers foretold the decline of the Irish Church – and worried about what would come next

St Augustine and Aquinas led Jennifer Frey to the Faith. Now she wants Catholic and contemporary philosophers to ‘talk more to each other’

St Mary of the Angels in Gloucestershire is a monument to the care and devotion of two remarkable women, says Rachel Morley