The announcement yesterday from the Vatican that St John Henry Newman is to be declared a Doctor of the Church is very good news indeed. St ...

Today is the Feast of Candlemas, the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is also the ...

I was pleasantly surprised yesterday afternoon to see in the list of new life peerage creations on the recommendation of the Leader of the C...

Archaeological investigations inevitably expand our knowledge of the past and Need us to reassess our understanding of what we think we kno...

Today was the Latin Mass Society's Oxford Pilgrimage in honour of the four martyrs of 1589 - the two priests Bl. George Nichols and Bl....

Today is the 420th anniversary of the martyrdom of the priest Bl. John Sandys at Gloucester in 1586. An Oriel man born 1550/55 in Cheshire ...

As today, being Candlemas, is the annual feast day of Oriel it seems a very appropriate day on which to post about Master James of Spain. W...

A fellow Orielensis has sent me links to three Daily Telegraph articles about the decision to retain the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel. ...

I heard on the Radio 4 Midnight News, where it was about fourth in rank as a story, and on the later BBC World Service, where it was equall...

Following on from the campaign to remove it a friend has forwarded to me the following link to a petition in support of retaining the statu...

Today is the 725th anniversary of the death in 1290 at Harby on the borders of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire of  Queen Eleanor of Casti...

Last Wednesday I gave a tour of Oxford sites associated with the period 1547-1603. This was for a study week based at Rewley House, the Un...

Last night I was dining with a friend at my usual Italian restaurant which has recently had large parties of students booking for what ca...

Yesterday afternoon I attended the AGM and Annual lecture of the Canterbury and York Society which was held in Oriel. The Society, fouind...

Reading Fr Hunwicke's blog has reminded me that today is the 420th anniversary of the death in 1594 of the other Oriel Cardinal, and s...

Last Saturday afternoon I attended the Memorial Service for the Rev. Professor Ernest Nicholson, Provost of Oriel from 1990-2003, which was...

Today is the 600th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Thomas Arundel of Canterbury. Archbishop Thomas Arundel The Archbisho...

With Candlemas falling at the weekend I, and indeed all the faithful,  had more opportunity than usual to join in celebrations of this lov...

Following on from my post Ernest Nicholson earlier this month about the death of the former Provost of Oriel the text of the obituary pub...

This afternoon I spent an enjoyable time giving a guided tour of Newman's Oxford to 19 Seminarians ans their tutors from the St Paul Se...