Example matters, and not just to appease and please the cranks

Friends of mine, who are practising Catholics have been scratching their heads and saying that they are reluctant to attend ‘Traddy Mass’ or...

The Miracle of the Sun in Fatima October 13, 1917

Thank you to my friend, Stella who shared this video on Facebook. Please be so kind as to pray for her intentions and her cherubic brood of ...

Pope's Benedict's Mass, 7th October, that opened The Year of Faith

Last Sunday, Rome was remarkably crowded, in a way that would rival those giddy days during the beatification of John Paul II. Throngs of Ge...

Getting tickets to the Pope's Mass in Rome

A sunny, warm October day in St Peter's Last week a colleague and I were in Rome to cover some stories, and we were fortunate enough to ...

The autumn path-less-taken is strewn with leaves...

My vividly green summer-time blog template with the sparkling blue sky didn't look right, now that the horizon is a fuzzy autumn mist an...

Did you know Fr Thwaites? Did any of his books or recordings bring you into the Church or inspire you to more ardent practices of the faith?

Here he is, the one and only, Fr Thwaites, née Fr Hugh Simon-Thwaites, with his gleeful smile and dancing eyes. I included him on the list a...

"When the pope laid his hands on my head, I had a tremendous sense of the strength of the Holy Spirit"

...were Archbishop Brown's words after his ordination to the Episcopate. Thank you to all the people who got in touch with good wishes a...