Some algorithm somewhere has decided that I'm undereducated, for regularly I receive via my internet server invitations to join masters' courses at universities — at considerable expense to me, be it added.

No one knows how to build another Chartres Cathedral.

Art provides an initial sign of the Christian vision, and Christian witness confirms its living reality in the world.

Since my adolescence I have loved churchyards and cemeteries.

A man lies back against a wooden cradle, high in the apse of the ancient church of Saint Clement in Rome.

Regular readers of this column know that we are often engaged in a species of cultural pathology.

"It's a strange place, Mat," said the young bride, shivering, and looking at the monastery covered in snow. 

Catholic schools are in a privileged position to help parents in [their] vocation, by providing opportunities to form themselves as families in that true Christian spirit which is nurtured by the sacred liturgy.

We in the West are obliging amnesiacs of our greatest achievements. 

Lost is classical reserve, and, in the Church, there is a fatal weakness for inflated rhetoric.