Western theologian Nicholas Sagovsky expresses shock and sadness As a UK-based theologian, I have been trying to understand what lies behind the catastrophic Russian attack on Ukraine and ‘Putin’s War’, and pose the following theological questions. (1) What [...]
Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski of the Ukrainian Catholics in Great Britain talks to New Directions about the impact of the Russian invasion and its consequences The Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile is just off Oxford Street [...]
We approach the highpoint of the Church’s year yet seem encircled by anxiety. Two years of a pandemic which, at certain points, was the source of widespread alarm and fear among the population has been bad enough. And now, emerging [...]
Andy Hawes Spiritual imagination ‘He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.’ The imagination is perhaps the most distinctive and powerful aspect of the human psyche. Humanity, created as an image of God out of [...]
For Andrew Gray, the solution to homelessness is within our reach In a world of bad news, it is easy to forget that good can emerge from evil. In 2015, on my way to Mass one Sunday, I came [...]
S JOHN BAPTIST, TIDESWELL, DERBYSHIRE Tideswell is the sort of large village that would once have had the status of a small town. To get there you traverse some splendid parts of the Peak District, and are greeted by [...]
The Annunciation Edwin Muir The angel and the girl are met. Earth was the only meeting place. For the embodied never yet Travelled beyond the shore of space. The eternal spirits in freedom go. See, they have come [...]
William Allen visits an exhibition of Polish aesthetics at the house of William Morris Młoda Polska! Such has London’s William Morris Gallery lately proclaimed, in an unexpected new collaboration with Krakow’s National Museum; thus have they championed all that [...]
ON THE CUSP: DAYS OF ’62 David Kynaston Bloomsbury, 2021 £18.99 239pp, ISBN 978-1-5266-3201 Life is a series of forgotten moments. Not if you are the historian David Kynaston in this the fourth instalment of his history of post-war [...]
Festus Martyn Percy appears in this column, then does a deal with Christ Church, Oxford. The claims have been settled and he will leave his £90,000-a-year role with a reported payoff of at least £1.5m, which is quite a [...]