“You will be frightened,” Alex warned, “and you will sweat. So wrap the paper in a bit of plastic, cut from a plastic bag, before rolling it up and pinning it inside your clothes.” This […]
Out into the London streets we went, praying and singing. The statue of the Blessed Virgin wobbled a bit as the four men carrying her on the big platform on their shoulders stooped to get […]
Headlines about complaints over sex education in a Catholic school. Claims that some students are “scared” by the approach used in teaching about sexually transmitted diseases. The head teacher defending what had been done and […]
When we got married, my husband and I arranged—rather belatedly, because we only got around to it some while after the wedding—for one of those papal blessings that come on a sort of scroll with […]
The name of Dietrich von Hildebrand is known to many Catholics as a great writer, thinker, and teacher who influenced many people, both in America where he taught for decades and in his native Europe. […]
Catholic schools are very popular in Britain and many—perhaps most—are oversubscribed. It has become a cliché to say that the only reason Catholic churches are so well-attended is that young parents are desperate to appear […]
Among the highlights of 2014 for me was a visit to the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko. I was first there in 1986, when Poland was still under Communism, and just months after his savage […]
History is about to be made in a corner of the West of England. The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham—Anglicans who have come into full communion with the Catholic Church—is writing a new chapter. The […]
When people are brought together for a special service in Britain—on Remembrance Sunday at a local War Memorial, or a Christmas carol service at a school—the service almost always includes the Lord’s Prayer. But over […]
The walk took us down muddy tracks and alongside great fields of sugar-beet and golden, waving wheat. We were heading for an ancient shrine, and we walked the ancient ways—routes mapped out centuries ago and […]
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