William Davage has been ready for his close-up   Last month I wrote about the writing of two books during the sustained period of lockdown. There was one other major preoccupation during that time: filming a video. One of the [...]

Fr John Underhill SSC  offers new hymns from his own pen for the Liturgy of the Hours, with suggested well-known settings   Office of Readings Within the watches of the night, Dear Saviour let us keep the fight Against the [...]

Robert Beaken remembers the late Cardinal Basil Hume OSB   In 1987-88 when I was an Anglican ordinand, I had the great good fortune to study as an ecumenical exchange student at the Venerable English College and Pontifical Gregorian University [...]

Simon Walsh has been enjoying the return of theatre   After a year in the doldrums with so many false starts and delayed openings, shows are back on, people are performing once more, and the numerous Covid-19 restrictions have been [...]

Art   The Making of Rodin Tate Modern until 21st November, 2021   Paris will always be Balzac, or at least Rodin’s great bronze Balzac in a dressing gown at 136 Boulevard Raspail, just along from where we used to [...]

Christopher Smith is nostalgic for the Muppet Show   One of the great TV memories of my generation is the Muppet Show, which was an ATV production filmed at Elstree, but all-American in its comedy.  And it was American comedy [...]

The Director of Forward in Faith contributes this month’s Editorial   The strains placed upon us by the pandemic and by the proposals emerging in many dioceses to reduce the number of stipendiary clergy, in some cases quite drastically, are [...]

Ben Rabjohns takes an anniversary to explore humanity, priestly gifts, and what they mean for the Church   I’m afraid that I’m not going to spend the next ten minutes or so telling you how extraordinary Fr Harri Williams is. [...]

Robin Ward introduces the new Edward King Centre   In 1970, the radical Roman Catholic priest Ivan Illich wrote a book called Deschooling Society. Illich was a cosmopolitan intellectual with a wide experience of working in education, who had spent [...]

Founded in 1855, St Matthew’s, Carver Street, in central Sheffield rose to prominence during the 54-year-long incumbency of the famous slum priest Fr George Campbell Ommanney (Vicar 1882-1936). The parish has now launched a £700,000 ‘Regenerate’ fundraising campaign seeking to [...]