Today is the Feast of the Birthday of Our Lady.  To celebrate this joyful day I am posting an image of a painting by Jan van Eyck (c.1...

The fury of English iconolasm came hard upon one of the most prodigious periods of church building in the history of the country. Of the pa...

Today is the feast day appointed for St Cuthbert (c.634-687) in the Ordinary Form. His traditional day, his principal feast indeed, is his...

A priest friend, noted for his enthusiasm for both fine liturgy and fine cars sent me this little piece last week, and I thought I would ...

Today is the feast of St Giles, and having been baptised in and spent years around a church dedicated to him, and about hich I wrote this ...

The painting is attributed to Paul Limbourg and, in part, to the later painter who worked on the manuscript in the 1480s, Jean Co...

I was amused by an apparently true story told by a participant in a discussion about violence and the media on Rradio 4 last night. It came...

I have offered to publicise this forthcoming event, which looks to offer some very good spiritual fare: Young Catholic Adults Weekend...