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In June 2025 Janet Daby, the Member of Parliament for Lewisham East, started having nightmares: terrible images of death and dying that disturbe…
The big news story of early August was Jason Arday. Appointed to a professorship at Cambridge University in 2023, the black scholar had been cha…
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation could stand as a summary...
Imagine that you work as a janitor in the office building of a large corporation. One evening you encounter the distraught CEO standing on a win…
Fiction can often convey the human texture of a time and place better than scholarly works of history. Herewith, and in honor of the national se…
Last week, some 70,000 African migrants invaded Ceuta. A coastal town of 84,000 people, Ceuta is the last remnant of Spanish presence in North A…
If James Herriot was alive now, he would be horrified by what this prime minister is doing. I’m speaking for him, really,” Jim Wight told me. As…
A Note from the Editor During Synod-2014, the first of two such international meetings to discuss the Catholic Church’s response to the crisis o…
When Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński is beatified on Sunday in Warsaw, this colossus of the postwar Polish Church will be principally remembered for h…
CRACOW. Thanks to the pandemic, it’s been two years since I was last in Cracow, where for three decades I’ve done extensive research and taught…
Father P.J. Hughes is the parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Mullahoran, a township in rural County Cavan, Ireland. He recently earn…
THE TENSIONS OF A PONTIFICATE Formally opening Synod-2019 at Mass in the Papal Basilica of St. Peter on October 6, Pope Francis preached a movin…
COMMENTARY CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPTS The fifteenth ordinary general assembly of the Synod of Bishops, convened by Pope Francis to refl…