Why did the Tories do so well in the recent council elections and in the Hartlepool by-election? Admittedly, it wasn’t all bad for...

The man on TV who really made me mad this week was Sir Charles Walker, Conservative MP for Broxbourne in Hertfordshire. Sir Charles has...

If you asked me which football teams were in the FA Cup Final in any year between 1960 and the mid-1990s, I could tell you. So could any...

I was excited when Natalie told me about a novel published very recently, Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil. This is subject matter on...

People know that I have a strong interest in Mary, the mother of Jesus. Devotion to Mary is the area that I research: I have written and...

Normally, I take little interest in the royal family. If I am honest, I think that the concept of a royal family belongs to an age gone...

I always fancied myself as a Christian minister, although I never became one, and so I am prone to giving the odd reflection on faith and...

Board Game Playing and Designing As a keen player of board games (sometimes without boards - just cards), and someone who likes...

For amateur astrologers like myself (note that I wrote 'astrologer' not 'astronomer'!), it is good to keep track of the Moon's cycle. The...

The 17th January 2021 was the 150th anniversary of the apparition of Mary at Pontmain in France. This is the kind of thing you notice...

I celebrated my birthday - my present from Natalie was this website! - by completing my book on Mary the mother of Jesus. I have asked...

Today is Chris' birthday! I have created this site for him to share all of his upcoming projects, thoughts, photos and general waffling...

The Centre for Marian Studies produced a journal titled Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies, published by Sheffield Academic Press,...

The Oxford Handbook of Mary was published in August 2019 in the UK (not until October in the US). It looks splendid; I hope that readers...

The Oxford Handbook of Mary is now passing through the copy editing stage, in preparation for proof reading and then publication later...

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag Trust is now an approved charity with the number 1171904. This means that the trust can now move to...

Our Lady of the Nations: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 20th Century Catholic Europe was published by Oxford University Press in...

At the end of October, Chris and Natalie went to the beautiful mountain village of Casanova Staffora in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There we...

Chris and Natalie were married at St Wilfrid’s Catholic Church, York, on 15th August! St Wilfrid’s houses the shrine of Our Lady of...

Chris is getting married to the wonderful Natalie Leavy on the traditional date of the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, 15th August 2015....