Looking for the face of Jesus
What did Jesus look like? The gospels give us no physical description of the Son of God. GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER looks...
Gunther Simmermacher
The Passion with Holy Land photos
Following the main portion of the Palm Sunday Gospel reading of Christ’s Passion from Mark 14-15, illustrated with photos from the...
St John XXIII’s Church in Istanbul
The basilica of St Anthony of Padua is the biggest Catholic church in Istanbul. GUNTHER SIMMERMACHER writes about the basilica where...
The Catholic Vibe of Munich
Munich is a metropole in which cultures meet — but the Catholic history of the city is ever-present, GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER...
Bavaria: A Catholic heartland
Nowhere in Germany does the Catholic faith live as strongly as it does in Bavaria, as GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER explains.
Cardinals show us Africa’s Church
TEN AFRICAN CARDINALS, by Sally Ninham. Connor Court Publishing, Australia. 2013. 367pp Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher The Catholic Church has...
Year-end Review 2014
It was the year in which Pope Francis called an extraordinary Synod on the Family, two popes were canonised and...
The story behind ‘Joy to the World’ carol
At Christmas we sing ‘Joy To The World’, an accidental Christmas carol written over two centuries in two continents by...
Biographies of Christmas Carols
Christmas carols: we sing them in church, we hear them piped in the shops, we may have CDs of Josh...
