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Peter Stanford

Luther’s Value
"For sheer human courage Martin Luther is hard to outdo"
Peter Stanford

Good Writer, Bad Picker
Elizabeth Jane Howard showed deep emotional insights as a writer, but could not apply them to her own life
Peter Stanford

We Shouldn’t Let Old Men Rot Away In Jail
As the prison population ages, more and more elderly, often disabled inmates are left in their cells, unable to cope yet fearful of release
Peter Stanford

Pietro Lavini
The Capuchin friar single-handedly returned a medieval church in Italy’s Appenine mountains to its former glory
Peter Stanford

Tombstone Stories
‘An everyday ramble round a graveyard subliminally corrects any tendency to assume ourselves immortal’
Peter Stanford

The Healing Power of Forgiveness
A new project allows crime victims to move on — by pardoning those who attacked them
Peter Stanford

If England Had Remained Catholic
Did the Reformation rescue us from theocracy? Or are we poorer without pilgrims, saints and feasts?
Peter Stanford

Lisieux, France: Relics of Thérèse
The veneration of saint's relics largely died out after the Reformation, but the bones of one 19th-Century nun inexplicably attract millions of pilgrims from around the world today
Peter Stanford

Not a Tall Order

Growing numbers of men are over six foot and have to endure painfully small train seats. The modernisers of our railways must heed their cries

Peter Stanford

The Pope was Powerless
Until the Vatican opens its archives, speculation about Pius XII's failure to condemn the Holocaust should not be used to indict all religion
Peter Stanford

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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