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Geoffrey Chaucer

Diary: A priest guides fellow travellers to St James

October 01, 2022

Walking holidays are not what walking the Camino, or indeed any holy path, is about, but the reordering of time is what they have in common. What really separates them is that single simple letter ‘I’. Somehow when walking a pilgrimage as a Christian the ego subsides

On Pilgrimage with Rosemary Hill

October 12, 2021

Where would you go? I would go to Canterbury which is not very original, but I have my reasons. Where I live in south London is very close to the Pilgrims Way and my office is in some almshouses in Peckham called the Pilgrims’ Cloisters. I feel that Canterbury is so essential to the church

Poetic Justice for Geoffrey Chaucer

March 01, 2021

The furore over the poet of The Canterbury Tales being culled from English Literature courses taught at various universities, in an attempt at “decolonising” the syllabus, is the worst sort of cultural censorship. The idea of scrapping medieval literature, and cancelling Geoffrey Chaucer, in favour of “modules on race and sexuality”, is mistaken. The son

The importance of a priest ‘knocking on a few doors’

July 30, 2012

No one ever forgets a priest who visited the sick, but does 'going out and about' make a difference to non-Massgoers

The Ordinariate will help reconnect the English Church to its medieval roots

November 11, 2010

The Catholic Church in England has lost a precious tradition: of ministering to everyone living within the parish boundary