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Andrew Cusack
St Philip Neri: Rome’s apostle of joy
Amid the corruption and exhaustion of Renaissance Rome, St Philip Neri answered spiritual crisis not with severity but with humour, friendship and irrepressible joy
Death in Algiers
François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’s The Stranger captures the novel’s moral ambiguity while gently widening its perspective
Saturday Read: The enduring pull of England’s cathedrals
A new Theos report suggests that England’s cathedrals remain among the nation’s most powerful public expressions of Christianity and sacred space
Saint Dunstan: the craftsman-monk who shaped medieval England
Scholar, craftsman and statesman, St Dunstan helped lead the English Benedictine revival and became one of the defining churchmen of Anglo-Saxon England
Saturday Read: What did Pope St Leo the Great ever do for us?
From confronting Attila the Hun to shaping the theology of Chalcedon, Leo the Great helped guide the Church through the end of the ancient world while offering lessons for turbulent times
Tammy Sandhu announced as Britain’s next ambassador to the Holy See
Foreign Office diplomat Tammy Sandhu MBE will replace Chris Trott as His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Holy See later this year
Saint Pancras: the teenage martyr behind London’s great station
The Roman martyr Saint Pancras gave his name to one of London’s great railway stations, though few travellers know the story of the teenage saint behind it
Who were the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales?
Clergy and laity alike shaped the legacy of the Forty Martyrs, whose lives illuminate both sacrifice and the sustaining culture of the Faith
St Asaph: an elusive Welsh saint
How a disciple of St Mungo gave his name to one of Britain’s smallest cathedral cities
The deadly dangers of untempered passion
Robert Icke’s Romeo and Juliet strips away Romantic myth to reveal Shakespeare’s warning about reckless desire
Saturday Read: Persia’s forgotten Christian queen
Before the rise of Islam, Sasanian Persia sheltered a remarkable Christian world whose memory still lingers in poetry, legend and cinema
How St George became England’s patron saint
Long before modern arguments about identity, St George had already been claimed by England as a saint whose witness stood above blood, region and politics
Why Catholic Emancipation still matters
Daniel O’Connell’s peaceful political revolution transformed constitutional life in Britain and beyond, yet its significance is too often overlooked in our historical memory
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