Sister Catherine Wybourne, Author at Catholic Herald

Sister Catherine Wybourne

Digital detoxes rarely work. Here are ten things that do

December 19, 2019

I wonder how many people will wake up on Christmas morning to find some new piece of tech in their stocking? I won’t, and not just because I’m a nun. I can claim to be an early adopter of all things digital. Back in the 1990s, when “the internet” largely meant Compuserve, accessed via dial-up

Being sick can make you feel like a burden. But illness is part of the Christmas story

December 20, 2018

Everyone hopes that Christmas will be perfect, Dickensian in its warmth and lavishness – or at least devoid of disappointments, rows and illness. Unfortunately, illness does strike at Christmas, and whether it be a light cold or something more serious, it can be difficult to adjust our ideas to the reality. Anyone with cancer, or

Reflection: St Francis’s dangerous idea

December 21, 2017

This year a well-known chain of bakers produced one of the most talked-about Nativity scenes. The substitution of a sausage roll for the Child Jesus horrified some, but, odd as it seems, it made sense theologically. At Christmas the Word becomes flesh and nourishes us with his very self in the Scriptures and sacraments, above

How should we react to the Manchester bombing?

May 23, 2017

Remember that Christ died for all human sin and has redeemed it

A world beyond noise

December 22, 2016

By mid-afternoon, the idea of spending Christmas Day in a monastery may begin to seem very appealing – the liturgy is beautiful, the smell of beeswax mingling with incense and flowers a heady delight and, best of all, there is, surely, an atmosphere of beatific calm pervading all. Alas, the reality is a little different.

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