I read about a recruitment campaign the Jesuits ran in Oz. They hired a PR firm to come up with an attention-grabbing tagline that would draw people to the Jesuits’ website, where the Order’s...

St John Henry Newman famously said: “God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never...

When we were young didn’t we all think we could fly (with or without a magic carpet), turn ourselves into a frog (or a prince/ess) or maybe suddenly, magnificently, be discovered as the long lost...

One of my shielding ‘staycation’ projects is reading Vikram Seth’s over-a-thousand page novel A Suitable Boy at the same time — well, I mean as well as — watching the Sunday night TV...

One of my shielding ‘staycation’ projects is reading Vikram Seth’s over-a-thousand page novel A Suitable Boy at the same time — well, I mean as well as — watching the Sunday night TV...

My dear, it's four-leaf clover time From now on my heart's working overtime 'S wonderful, 's wonderful 'S marvelous, 's marvelous That you should care for me What a comforting song! Here it is...

I don’t suppose there are many who can remember that clarion call which came at the start of The Billy Cotton Band Show – every Sunday morning on the ‘wireless’ in 50s and 60s Britain. Just a...

I was fascinated to read about the recent discoveries at the wider Stonehenge site on Salisbury Plain in England.  A massive circle, formed of deep pits where stone monuments once were, has been...

This painting, by the artist Howard Hodgkin, is entitled Morning, and was painted in the year before his death in 2017. You can see all his paintings and other works here – should you so wish,...