Adam Gaunt recounts his brickie moment at Cleveland’s ironstone mining museum As a parish priest I have often found myself called upon to undertake all manner of tasks which I could never have envisioned or prepared for, and on [...]
John Gayford looks at how the Stations of the Cross help us to enter with devotion into the sufferings of Our Lord Early Christians of the first century went on Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, visited Jerusalem and followed [...]
being celebrated by Society bishops Bishop of Wakefield - 11.30am on Wednesday 6 April at Lichfield Cathedral - 6pm on Sunday 10 April at S. Peter, Horbury - 7pm on Tuesday 12 April at S. Aidan, Sunderland - 12pm [...]
For March, Martin Draper selects two religious community texts: ‘Enter our hearts, O holy Lord’ and ‘With joy and by the Spirit led’ The English Hymnal, was not the first hymn book to contain translations of the ancient Latin [...]
Nigel Aston makes an impassioned plea for Catholics in the countryside Catholic mission and ministry initiatives tend to be found in urban centres, often places of deprivation, hardship, and poverty, places where our movement has ministered since it came [...]
John-Francis Friendship introduces his new book exploring the wisdom offered to the world by the Religious Life as it has been lived, and in particular by Anglicans ‘When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek [...]
Jonathan Baker maps temple theology by way of the Uxbridge Road When this parish was first established in 1872, it would have been one of a number created in response to the rapid urbanisation of this part of London [...]
Chris Vipers introduces ‘For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission’ In October 2023, Bishops of the worldwide Catholic Church will gather in Synod in Rome. The path towards this Synod began in October 2021, in a worldwide invitation from [...]
Tom Woolford offers a note of caution on proposals for electing the next Archbishop of Canterbury Back in early February, I had one of the greatest honours of my life – as unexpected as it was wonderful. A pen-pal [...]
Renowned historian and royal commentator Hugo Vickers reflects on the Accession of Her Majesty Our Queen It must have been an extraordinary way to become Queen – at an undefined moment, on a man-made platform up a tree, watching [...]