A learning heart Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House I recently contributed to a conference exploring the Church's ministry to those with learning difficulties or other additional needs in our church communities. The delegates included medical, educational [...]
KENNETH CLARK Looking for Civilisation Tate Britain 20 May-10 August Admission £10, concessions available Kenneth Clark once featured in a Monty Python album. At the time he was a posh man in late middle age and so ripe for satire. [...]
Marrakech is a place to drink in the sights, sounds and smells of North Africa, writes Richard Norman The mosques are fewer, but the singing is poorer: however, Marrakech is just as interesting a holiday destination as Istanbul. It is [...]
Is the Bible the Church's authority or guide? Churches aspiring to be `seeker-sensitive' might be inclined to present it as the latter, but could find themselves cutting the price so more will buy and thus losing spiritual integrity. Our anti-authority, [...]
Brother Steven Haws CR presents two articles written in 1944 by Fr Joiner of St Clement's, Philadelphia, warning of the dangers of Liberalism Article 1— Liberal Catholics The rise of Liberal Groups within the Church should give us pause and [...]
Denis Desert on the image of Christ in the paintings of Marc Chagall pope Francis was quoted recently as saying that his favourite painting was Marc Chagall's White Crucion, No doubt he identified in the artists work the general suffering [...]
J. Alan Smith takes a closer look at the Gettysburg Address :..that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth' (Abraham Lincoln, Address at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at [...]
Some regions of France are especially rich in Romanesque architecture. The Auvergne is pre-eminent. They have their regional peculiarities — the bigger churches tend to have high transepts and octagonal central towers. Nestling in the Sioulet valley, Orcival (1) is [...]
Paul Cartwright travelled to France with the West Yorkshire Police Band for the 70th Anniversary of D-Day 'When you go home you MUST tell everyone, especially the young ones, about what happened here all those years ago, because they must [...]
Digby Anderson explores the reasons for the modern Church's silence on the Last Things A good and prominent Forward in Faith priest complained recently that we don't hear much these days about hell. Nor indeed about the other Last Things. [...]