Pope Benedict XVI leads the Rosary at the Chapel of the Apparitions in Fatima's Sanctuary Here, in case you have not seen it, and court...

I t was with a slightly sinking feeling of "Oh dear, here we go again" that I saw that John Cornwell had been writing in the Sunda...

Today is Ascension Day and I am observing it as such. That is to say that I have said the Office for the day and will attend the Sung Mass i...

Today is the Feast of the Holy Abbots of Cluny. My own interest in Cluny arises in part from the fact that there was from 1090 until 1539 a ...

I am minded, at least for the moment, not to become yet another instant expert on election analysis, PR in its numerous forms or historic pr...

A friend has forwarded to me these splendid photographs of the pre-1955 Easter Liturgy as celebrated pontifically this year at St Gertrude ...

King Athelstan presenting a copy of Bede's two lives of St Cuthbert to the saint in his shrine at Chester-le-Street in 934. This is ...

I spent part of Tuesday evening talking to a friend who had spent the weekend on a pilgrimage to the exposition of the Holy Shroud in Turin....