Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

It is reported that the Queensland parliament has joined other Australian legislatures in providing for the imprisonment of Catholic Priests...

I don't suppose, dear transpontine readers, that you keep up-to-date with our pettier news stories ... so let me explain that a member o...

 In 1965, a pathetically pompous English periodical informed its readers that "No Old Etonians or Harrovians figure in the [English Hie...

Today is the anniversary of the day, in 1348, when Pope Clement particularly named the Jews in one of his decrees. During the Blac...

There they were, a couple of Japanese students, sitting together at the back, sn****ring as they passed notes back and forth. Without interr...

Somebody has raised an old query about this phrase. I dealt with the question in August last year and reprinted the post on 7 Feb this year.

Ten years since Pope Benedict's Apostolic Visit! The other day I watched the full video of his Mass in Westminster Cathedral. It really ...

Well, stone the crows. I published this post on August 15; and a book has just come out with collected limericks by Anglophone members of th...

... nulla Salus. I am a little nervous about the emphasis laid upon this in some traddy circles, and about some of the stricter interpretati...

 ... have just come back to me. (1) We were there during a French presidential election, and much enjoyed seeing what was happening, and w...

The former editor of The Tablet, a Mrs Pepinster, was on the Home Service a few weeks ago and spoke about the unfortunate way the Catholic C...

As the Solemnity of our Lady of Walsingham ... and S John Henry Newman ... start to appear over the horizon, here are some points which appl...