Roy Hattersley: ‘The Church’s real heroes are the little people’
April 20, 2017
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The former deputy Labour leader, a ‘hardened atheist’, was so intrigued by British Catholics he wrote a 600-page history of them
The end of the ‘Hitler’s Pope’ myth
March 9, 2017
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For 50 years, the truth about Pius XII’s battle against Nazism has been suppressed. But new evidence makes his heroism undeniable
The lowbrow strategy that won the Reformation
March 3, 2017
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Jack Scarisbrick says that Eamon Duffy’s new study of the period is a must-read
Pope Francis to make historic visit to Anglican church in Rome
February 21, 2017
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The church of All Saints will be twinned with the Catholic parish of Ognissanti, home to the titular church of Cardinal Walter Kasper, to make the occasion
Vatican Museums open doors wider with revamped website
January 24, 2017
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A YouTube channel featuring ‘virtual tours’ has also been launched
Boston Archdiocese creates online database to help Catholics trace family history
January 11, 2017
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Thousands of records dating back to 1789 will be available to view online
A glimpse inside Christ’s burial place
November 23, 2016
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For the first time in almost 2,000 years, scientists have examined Jesus’s tomb; what they have found underlines the truth of the Gospels
Colombian government and Farc to sign peace deal despite objections from former president
November 23, 2016
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The decision to sign the amended peace accord was made during a meeting at a heavily guarded Catholic retreat in Bogota
St Thomas More’s hair shirt now enshrined for public veneration
November 22, 2016
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The shirt worn by the saint as he contemplated a martyr’s death in the Tower of London has been encased above an altar in Buckfast Abbey
What the Catholic Church can teach Islam about responding to atheists
October 18, 2016
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Unlike the lynch mobs of Bangladesh, the Church has nothing to fear from modern secularism
The TV version of Queen Victoria does justice to a truly great monarch
September 26, 2016
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Victoria was by no means a model constitutional monarch, but she remains a fascinating figure in British history
Elizabeth I’s Muslim ties ‘held off a Catholic invasion’, says a New York Times piece. It’s a myth
September 23, 2016
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Sixteenth-century England did have links with the Ottoman Empire. But let’s not overstate their importance