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 [...]

Thomas Hatton  says farewell to Synod   I joined General Synod in November 2015 and represented Southwark Diocese. My principal motivation for standing was that it had no traditional catholic lay representation, which considering the number of Society parishes needed [...]

Fr Aidan CR passed away in peace on Friday 17th September. He was in his 91st year and the 58th year of his profession in the Community.   Bishop Peter Wheatley offers a personal recollection I know the London Parishes [...]

Luke Miller looks at what martyrs can teach us about mission and ecclesiology   They are not of the world any more than I am of the world… As you sent me into the world, I sent them into the [...]