It can be a little too easy sometimes for critics of the Catholic Movement to say that we are backward looking, and always harking after a time gone by; looking back to the church of the past with rose-tinted spectacles [...]

William Davage considers an extraordinary week in British politics   The morning of the prorogation of Parliament, I read these words of the prophet Habakkuk (1.3–4): ‘Outrage and violence, this is all I see, all is contention, and discord flourishes. [...]

Malcom McMahon OP explains the power of the eucharist   The eucharist: God living among his people. The eucharist is God’s reply to our human need for him by which he addresses our poverty and nothingness without him. At the [...]

Robert Ladds encourages us to slow down and look deeper   An article by Jonathan Watts, published in Tate Etc. is entitled ‘Slow Art in an Age of Speed.’ I was struck by it, for among other reasons, because at [...]

Denis Desert on Newman’s ability to use poetry to convey spiritual understanding   Matthew Arnold, the literary critic, in spite of not sharing John Henry Newman’s theological perspective, held him in considerable regard. While Arnold admired Newman from an early [...]

Steve Rice gives advice for forming a catholic parish   Based on average Sunday attendance, St Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina is one of the largest (and depending on how narrow you wish to define Anglo-Catholicism, it may [...]

Arthur Middleton offers extracts from Newman’s letters regarding the Oxford Movement   From a letter to John Bowden, a close friend of Newman from undergraduate days, and a lay supporter of the Oxford Movement, 31 August 1833: As to the [...]

Michael Fisher reflects on the canonisation of Blessed John Newman   ‘If I looked into a mirror and did not see my face, I should have the kind of feeling which actually comes upon me when I look into this [...]