A statement from the Northern Bishops of The Society of Saint Wilfrid and Saint Hilda As the three Society Bishops based in the Province of York, we welcome the Time to Sow in the North report produced by St John’s College, [...]
Ian McCormack onsiders what we might learn from the past On 27th March 2020, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York wrote to the clergy of the Church of England. The letter included these words: ‘We are in a time of [...]
S JAMES, TWYCROSS, LEICS From the outside, this dark stone church looks typical of what one sees in villages across the East Midlands, with a stocky Perp tower complementing a building mainly in the 14th c. style. The interior was [...]
Arthur Middleton on the Ecclesial Dilemma Crisis of Identity Today the notion of heresy, while present in church vocabulary, is manifestly absent from the vocabulary of contemporary politically-correct theology – a theology that prefers to refer to “pluralism” and to [...]
A letter from Bishop Philip North to Walsingham Pilgrims Six hundred years before Jesus was born, the Jewish people were driven from their beloved Temple in Jerusalem and sent away in exile to Babylon. It was a time of bitterness, [...]
John Gayford offers a Critical Historical Evaluation of Liturgical Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus can be defined as the response of the faithful to the fact of Christ’s love, divine and [...]
Tom Sutcliffe goes to school I do not remember much about being ill with bronchitis when I was three. It must have been after my big sister and I went with our mother in 1946 to spend three months in [...]
Thurifer goes to the opera “Je ne regrette rien,” memorably sang iconic French chanteuse, Edith Piaf. That is not, however, a sentiment I share. I regret many lapses of judgement, taste, action. High among those regrets is deficiency in a [...]
Art Aubrey Beardsley Kimono: Kyoto to catwalkTate Britain, until 25 th May Victoria and Albert Museum, until 25th June Every morning when I open up church I look across the road to Aubrey Beardsley’s Pimlico house, a building once festooned [...]
Christopher Smith reflects on the power of the Cross Just as priests shouldn’t preach about preaching, I dare say those of us who write articles for magazines shouldn’t write about writing articles for magazines. Even so, you may as well [...]