Articles by Joanna Bogle

The Sunday School is now too large and the children just can’t fit comfortably into the Parish Room in the Rectory.  So a Children’s Choir has been formed from among the older children, those who […]

Waffles. One of the special moments on this pilgrimage is the welcome at the small village of Brandon, where local Catholics open up their church for an early Mass for us and then serve a […]

“You will be frightened,” Alex warned, “and you will sweat. So wrap the paper in a bit of plastic, cut from a plastic bag, before rolling it up and pinning it inside your clothes.” This […]

Out into the London streets we went, praying and singing. The statue of the Blessed Virgin wobbled a bit as the four men carrying her on the big platform on their shoulders stooped to get […]

Headlines about complaints over sex education in a Catholic school. Claims that some students are “scared” by the approach used in teaching about sexually transmitted diseases. The head teacher defending what had been done and […]

When we got married, my husband and I arranged—rather belatedly, because we only got around to it some while after the wedding—for one of those papal blessings that come on a sort of scroll with […]

The name of Dietrich von Hildebrand is known to many Catholics as a great writer, thinker, and teacher who influenced many people, both in America where he taught for decades and in his native Europe. […]

Catholic schools are very popular in Britain and many—perhaps most—are oversubscribed. It has become a cliché to say that the only reason Catholic churches are so well-attended is that young parents are desperate to appear […]

Among the highlights of 2014 for me was a visit to the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko. I was first there in 1986, when Poland was still under Communism, and just months after his savage […]