Författare: Stanford Peter Stanford

After the persecutions that followed the Reformation, the Catholic Church that re-emerged in the 19th century was a defensive, introspective one, largely made up of working-class immigrants and a han …

Contemporary pilgrim Peter Stanford visits some of the most ancient religious sites in Britain, taking the spiritual temperature of our apparently secular and sceptical age. …

What does it mean to be a Catholic in today’s world? What distinguishes the modern Catholic from anyone else? At a time when the Vatican provokes hostility by its opposition to contraception, abortio …

The Death of a Child is a collection of a dozen essays in which parents and siblings tell their own stories of losing a child, brother or sister, and of how they have coped with bereavement and grief …

How unfair’, wrote one national newspaper in 1951, ’that accomplishments enough to satisfy the pride of six men should be united in Mr Day-Lewis.’ Poet, translator of classical texts, novelist, detec …

The Death of a Child is a collection of a dozen essays in which parents and siblings tell their own stories of losing a child, brother or sister, and of how they have coped with bereavement and grief …

Death is the one certainty in life, yet, with the decline of religion in the West, we have become collectively reluctant to talk about it.Our contemporary rituals seek to sanitise death and distance …

Contemporary pilgrim Peter Stanford visits some of the most ancient religious sites in Britain, taking the spiritual temperature of our apparently secular and sceptical age. …

How unfair’, wrote one national newspaper in 1951, ’that accomplishments enough to satisfy the pride of six men should be united in Mr Day-Lewis.’ Poet, translator of classical texts, novelist, detec …

What does it mean to be a Catholic in today’s world? What distinguishes the modern Catholic from anyone else? At a time when the Vatican provokes hostility by its opposition to contraception, abortio …