Biography and History

When the Pope visits Britain this coming September, John Henry Newman – a leading Anglican and founding figure of the Oxford Movement who converted to Rome – will be beatified, the first English saint since the 17th century. This...

‘Workplace chaplaincy’ is the term that covers the church’s outreach to the economy which today takes many forms and is supported by many local ecumenical partnerships. Chaplains can be found in supermarkets, at airports, in...

The leading Catholic commentator and historian Michael Walsh throws open the mysterious and secretive world of the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. They are Catholicism’s ‘nearly men’ who never became Pope but who have been...

First published in 2000 and with previous sales of 7000 copies, this is a volume that continues to be in demand, both from individual readers and tutors on ordination and other ministry courses.  A dazzling array of contributors including Henry...

What makes a young, Cambridge educated woman first join a religious order and then, if that were not demanding enough, seek a hermit vocation, literally on the edge of the world with only a simple hut as protection against Atlantic winds and storms?...