Back in 1968, the Lambeth Conference service of Holy Communion planned for St Paul’s Cathedral had to be moved to the White City Stadium because of ‘the huge demand for tickets’. Fifteen thousand people were present, reported Pathé News, at [...]
Andy Hawes Creation & Recreation To cherish creation and to care for it, to take it and remake, is essential to all human life and activity. It is the bedrock of our spiritual life. Our Lord’s Incarnation renewed [...]
Capel Lofft makes the case for why we need a new heroic age of Church leadership It may be antiquated and romantic whimsy, but I cling to a notion of the ideal bishop as undaunted hero of the faith, [...]
Michael Middleton offers a reflection for the Feast of the Transfiguration Scholars have suggested several possibilities for the site of the Transfiguration, but today pilgrims head for Mount Tabor in Galilee, a quiet and rather lovely spot. The cars [...]
Robert Beaken considers the Feast of the Assumption There are few hard facts about Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Instead, we are confronted with fragments, passed on by word of mouth for several generations, before finally being committed [...]
Situated in one of the most pleasant regions of France, Saulieu is a small town around 45 miles W. of Dijon. Its patron saint, who brought Christianity to the region, and was martyred here (c. 177 AD) was from Smyrna [...]
Stephen Keeble of St George’s, Headstone, in Harrow celebrates their unique and extraordinary acquisition of the work of Martin Travers Historian of Anglo-Catholicism Michael Yelton describes Martin Travers’s ‘High Mass’ drawings for Pictures of the English Liturgy as ‘perhaps [...]
Forget Ferrero Rocher, Philip Corbett talks to Ameer Kotecha about how ambassadors impress and inspire with what they serve to guests around the globe As I sat down on a plush leather sofa in the Foreign Office to talk [...]
Mark McIntyre introduces St Titus Brandsma, Carmelite Martyr of Dachau There is a wonderful photograph of the Brandsma family, dated 5th August 1905. Rather like another famous Carmelite saint’s family, five of the six children are members of a [...]
The War on the West Douglas Murray Harper Collins, 2022 ISBN 978-0008492496 The high-profile political commentator Douglas Murray believes that a cultural war ‘is being waged remorselessly against all the roots of the Western tradition and against everything good [...]