Today is the Feast of St John Henry Newman. The date was selected as it is the anniversary of his reception into the Catholic Church by Bl....

The recent publicity about the recent research into the date of the Shroud of Turin, about which I have posted several times recently, has ...

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, the anniversary of the battle of Lepanto in 1571, and this month of October is traditionally ...

The other evening I came upon a really excellent online video about the evolution over much of the last two millennia of the Lincolnshire c...

The Daily Telegraph  has an article about the most recent work to try to establish a secure scientific date for the Shroud of Turin. I wrot...

Some months back I read Oliver Rackhams’s really splendid books Trees and Woodland in the British Countryside and The History of the Country...

Today is the Feast of St Thomas of Hereford, who died in 1282, and whose canonisation in 1320 was the last of a non-martyr Englishman until...

Today is the Feast of the Guardian Angels. In 2020 I posted the Breviary Mattins readings from St Bernard of Clairvaux, together with a pic...