Roman Miscellany

I haven't been posting very much recently, not only because it's a busy time of year in the parish but because my 83 year-old father...

I'm delighted to post the following advert for the International Summer School for Young Catholics, founded by the late David Foster. As...

Last week I visited St Mary's College, Oscott, the seminary for the Archdiocese of Birmingham, in order to collect some archival materia...

Since publishing on 2009 anniversaries earlier this month, I keep coming across more. Today, for example, is not only the Conversion of St ...

Alumni of the Venerable English College, Rome in recent years have been rather prolific in publishing books. In the last week or so two of m...

Good news about the SSPX excommunications being remitted at the end of Christian Unity Week. There is still a long way to go and I'm sur...

This time last week I was in the Castelli, the little towns in the Alban Hills just outside Rome. After a sublime lunch at Monte Porzio (whe...

I've been asked to draw your attention to the new 'Official Website for the Cause for the Canonisation of JohnHenry Cardinal Newman....

Saturday was the feast of St Anthony of Egypt, the desert Father whose story was so memorably told by St Athanasius. In Italy he is known as...

I received two e-mails today, from readers in Germany and Texas, encouraging me to post after an absence of a few weeks. I have indeed been ...

Fr Tim has noted on his blog the sad news of the death, at the age of 75, of David Foster , a tireless champion and teacher of the Faith. I...

Two big Catholic anniversaries with Hertfordshire connections - the martyrdom of St Alban and the death of Pope Adrian IV (formerly Nichola...

How great the mystery and wondrous the sacred sign, that beasts should look upon the Lord lying lowly in the stall!

On Wednesday I popped down to the Kentish coastal town of Ramsgate. My first port of call was the Benedictine monastery , which I used to vi...

I found out today that 12 December, as well as being the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and my birthday, is also the dies natalis of St Edbu...

Advent and Christmas are richly musical seasons and there are many recordings available of carols and noels, cantatas and oratorios. Each ye...

Many of you will have a copy of Christopher Martin's A Glimpse of Heaven on your shelves, a handsome coffee table book about the most b...

Continuing the Cardinal Pole theme - today I popped over to Lambeth Palace, at the invitation of a friend who works in the Library and has b...

Today is the 450th anniversary of the deaths of both Cardinal Pole, last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mary Tudor. The English and...

Since everyone is currently talking about politics, especially in the wake of the American election, here is Chicago's Fr Robert Barron ...