Sacred Mysteries: Air miles alone don’t make anyone a saint
Pope John Paul II was canonised 10 years ago. What made him a holy man?
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How a liberal Oxford friar rose to the Vatican’s top rung
A record four English cardinals will serve together for first time as Pope Francis unexpectedly names 79-year-old Father Timothy Radcliffe
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At the end of the day, speech fillers are, like, literally annoying, to be fair. Not gonna lie
Old hand Christopher Howse and young gun Guy Kelly are fed up with the meaningless linguistic fillers that liberally sprinkle our speech
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Sacred Mysteries: Not left alone after all to face the music
Favourite hit songs are now suggested as suitable listening to die to. They could be an infuriating distraction
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Forget Whatsapps, postcards are the ultimate ‘thought that counts’ act
Stand well back, the waves of nostalgia are rolling in. Old hand Christopher Howse and young gun Guy Kelly are pining for handwritten notes
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Sacred Mysteries: Why the hidden sun is going to shine again
Where Western Christians have dropped their burden of belief, secularists are hard put to explain even why they should be kind
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Sacred Mysteries: Is it permissible to eat a hot cross bun?
The Cross is seen by many Muslims as idolatrous and offensive to sound doctrine
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If I’m to watch BBC iPlayer instead of live TV, it’ll have to be better than this
Watching telly used to be as simple as turn on, tune in and drop off. Now ‘on demand’ has turned TV into a competitive sport
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The font that makes any writer sound 35 per cent cleverer
What does your choice of typeface say about you? Christopher Howse and Guy Kelly have some strong views on everything serif and sans...
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Sacred Mysteries: Remember the Ember Days of September
Ember Days are a funny name for a strange annual occurrence
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Britain loves talking about the weather – but we hate weather warnings more than anything else
Experts issue alerts and the public ignores them. Old hand Christopher Howse and young gun Guy Kelly debate throwing cautions to the wind
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Sacred Mysteries: A fiery presence in the Dark Night of the Soul
St John of the Cross wrote poetry about night being a setting for love and transformation
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Nobody needs their bin pretending to be a sentient being
As inanimate objects increasingly adopt a human voice, old hand Christopher Howse and young gun Guy Kelly struggle with the over-familiarity
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This biography of Elizabeth II is a very unusual masterpiece
A Voyage Around the Queen, the latest in Craig Brown’s series of fragmentary biographies, teems with facts, humour and intelligence
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Sacred Mysteries: The wives and daughters of Catholic clergy in Rome
The women of the Trelawny and the Weld families changed history in surprising ways
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Sacred Mysteries: A church window of Queen Victoria in her nightgown
How a wildly popular painting of the Queen was changed for Malvern Priory
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