During the month of the Holy Rosary, Stefan Kaminski looks at the origins of this Marian devotion and its historical importance in defending the Christian faith in Europe.

An exciting, new Christian Leadership Formation programme has been launched, offering theological and philosophical formation for Sixth Form students aspiring to a life of public service.

David Gorman looks back 50 years to when 20,000 flocked to Preston’s Deepdale Stadium for Mass to celebrate the Canonisation of the Forty Martyrs, a quarter of whom came from Lancashire.

Every Christian is called to saintliness. Rediscovering the lives of the saints and their attractiveness as role models is crucial to reinvigorating our spiritual lives.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Karol Wojtyla’s birth. As a priest, bishop and pope, John Paul II’s greatest pastoral concern was undoubtedly the family. Sadly, the centenary of this remarkable saint’s birth has been inevitably muted by the constraints of the Covid situation, but those same constraints have,...

While we remain locked in debate over Covid-19 statistics, social distancing and lockdown measures, it’s a good time to remember that many of our Christian brothers and sisters around the world have more immediate concerns: they are (readily) putting their very lives at risk by professing and practicing their faith.

St Anselm, together with St George, offers a clear model for a pragmatic faith during the difficulties of lockdown.

Fr Jose Granados offers a different perspective on the Covid-19 crisis: that of providence and the corresponding call to love in every more creative ways.

Every country can point to some event within its past which has played a role in defining the nature of that country, both historically and to the present day. A French person would likely point to the French Revolution in 1789, a German to the fall of the Nazi regime...

That there is a change in the Earth’s climate is an undisputable fact. The significance of that change is debated by some. Others label these people as ‘climate change deniers’. How-ever, there has also been a different sort of ‘climate change’ going on for a while, which also has its...

High in the apse of St Mary Majors Basilica in Rome is an ancient mosaic from the 12th Century by the Franciscan artist Jacopo Torriti, which represents the story of the three kings or the Epiphany of the Lord.

In his eponymous encyclical of 1891, responding to the societal upheaval and profound economic changes of the industrial revolution, Pope Leo XIII prophetically addressed ‘Rerum novarum’ – those “new things”, new challenges which confronted the world, particularly concerning capital and labour.