Ryan N. Danker introduces the Eucharistic hymns of John and Charles Wesley I would be loath to call John and Charles Wesley Thomists, but I once insinuated something along those lines during a meeting of the United States Methodist and [...]
Tony Hodgson reflects upon the legacy of Bishop Baddeley In his perceptively written lead article of June’s edition of New Directions, Dr John Tomlinson provided both a fascinating and encouraging overview of the present condition of the Catholic Tradition across [...]
J. Alan Smith on an act of reconciliation My father, Francis John (Jack) Smith, died in Mukaishima POW Camp on 28 December 1942. Mukaishima is on a small island off the southern coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan, [...]
Luke Walford introduces this new resource Being aged twenty, I struggle to remember a time in which the internet was not the complex, ever expanding tool we have now. The huge computer screens, floppy disks, and mobile phones of the [...]
Our prayers are with all those who were due to have been ordained at Petertide, whose ordinations have had to be postponed as a result of the pandemic and the moratorium on public worship which it has brought about. An [...]
Barry A. Orford encourages a unity of spirit Arthur Sullivan was having fun, of course, dividing W. S. Gilbert’s lyric comically between two gondoliers who were reigning jointly as a monarch until it was discovered which of them was actually [...]
S MARY MAGDALENE, GEDNEY, LINCS Heading east along the road from Spalding towards Kings Lynn, you pass a succession of notable churches, part of what Henry Thorold once termed the via mirabilis for church crawlers, Weston, Moulton, Whaplode, Holbeach, Fleet [...]
Domestic Prayer Andy Hawes Readers of this magazine will have benefited from receiving some excellent material produced by Catholic societies in the Church of England to enable worship and prayer at home. It is to be hoped and prayed that [...]
John Gayford explores the evolution of the minor orders in Patristic times With the growth of the early Church in Patristic times (usually taken as from the end of the first to the beginning of the eighth century) liturgy was [...]
During 2018, New Directions published an essay, Theology & Disenchantment, in three parts. It began by remarking that although ‘…distance may not always lend enchantment, distance in time may sometimes lend perspective.’ And though the debates discussed there had indeed [...]