Faith for Holy Places
HOLY places were scarce in my earliest experience of Christianity. The Congregational Church in Newquay, where my family worshipped, was not somewhere to light a candle or pop in to pray on a weekday. In any case, it was…
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Brilliant Baroque (Isabella Leonarda and others) by the Nonsuch Singers (Holy Trinity, Sloane Street)
IT IS a boom time for female composers, as they emerge from the shadows. Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), one of the 17th century’s most prolific composers, was born to a noble family in Novara, north Italy, and entered an…
Faith for Holy Places
FEW expect to find God in Cannes. A new handbag, perhaps. A suntan, for sure. An indefinable sense of having paid rather too much for an indifferent meal — well, that goes with the territory. But the glamorous resort on the…
Faith: Holy space, heavenly noise
“IF A child doesn’t understand that church is a holy space, they shouldn’t be in church.” This — or something close to it (my emotions blur the exact words) — was said to me at the door after church on a recent Sunday…
USCCB president requests Holy Hour for peace after incidents involving ICE
Fri Jan 30, 2026 - 3:30 pm ESTSat Jan 31, 2026 - 12:50 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — In response to escalating tensions between federal immigration agents and protesters, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic…
A companion for Lent, Holy Week and beyond by David F. Ford
THE beauty of this book is how David Ford marries serious scholarship with an infectious passion for a Gospel that enables people to meet God through Jesus, “open to the superabundance of life that he gives”. Ford understands…
Faith for Holy Places
OVERNIGHT, I became disabled, seriously: tetraplegic. For the first few months after such a drastic spinal injury, it is a question of survival. Then, the challenge of “rehab” dawns. Initially, it seems a simple target: to be…
Christians in the Holy Land Are Being Ethnically Cleansed
Jason Jones delivers a sobering report from the front lines of the Holy Land: the systematic ethnic cleansing of its indigenous Christian community. Speaking with John-Henry Westen, Jones explains that the Christians of the…
Holy Land patriarchs denounce ‘Christian Zionism’ as a ‘damaging ideology’
Mon Jan 19, 2026 - 10:44 am EST (LifeSiteNews) — The Christian Patriarchs of the Holy Land have condemned “Christian Zionism” as a “damaging ideology” that threatens the unity of Christians. The Patriarchs and Heads of the…
Pope Leo XIV to return Holy Thursday liturgy to Lateran Basilica after Francis-era break
Fri Jan 16, 2026 - 11:34 am EST VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV will celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran on the evening of Holy Thursday during this year’s Holy Week,…
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