“We have something for you,” said the manageress, with a pardonably smug smile, as soon as I entered the coffee-shop. And she went to a door, rummaged in the cupboard and produced—my bag with my […]
Rome sizzles in summer heat. The sun glares down remorselessly on shoppers thronging the streets around St. Maria del Populo, where the priest has just finished celebrating the last morning Mass. I had wanted to enjoy […]
The lanterns glow through the dusk as the summer evening darkens into twilight. Meanwhile revelers in the garden square make their way slowly to the gates as the park-keeper gradually rounds them up. More noisily, […]
They let me thorough the police cordon on Sunday morning when I explained I wanted to get to Mass. “Father Chris sent a message to say it might have to be in the school hall, […]
We are sitting, the three of us, around the table in the classroom, surrounded by posters encouraging literacy and offering opportunities for taking up new skills. Father S. has been explaining about the Rosary, and […]
We seem to be rather short of good news for Catholics at present. Here is something that is at least faintly cheering. Dame Louise Casey is a government-appointed official with the rather worrying title of […]
Dame Louise Casey, the “integration tsar” for the Government of the United Kingdom, said in a parliamentary session that it is “it is not OK for Catholic schools to be homophobic and anti-gay marriage…it is […]
It’s been six years. I remember sitting in a guest house at EWTN in Alabama—where I was working on a new history-and-traditions series at the time—and watching, via my computer, a great event unfolding in […]
London has echoed to the sounds of Christmas carols for a long, long time. Some of our traditional Christmas carols have medieval origins. The only time that carolers have been banned was under Oliver Cromwell—who […]
The feast-day of St. John Paul the Great is on October 22, and there will be a Blessed Sacrament procession through London on that day. The procession is an annual event that gives thanks for […]
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