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Melanie McDonagh
I'm thankful for the sacrament that Luther and Calvin rejected
my mother received the sacrament of the anointing of the sick last sunday. i was away when she was anointed but her carers were there and th...
I'm not surprised the secular Sunday Assembly didn't work out
once, you couldn’t move for people talking up the sunday assembly. these are secular gatherings, first held in london in 2013, which replica...
Wolf Hall: When ingenious fiction meets public ignorance
just in time for the publication of the mirror and the light, the third and final volume of hilary mantel’s trilogy about the life of t...
Gold leaf on your camel burger: a visit to the UAE
one of the nice things about pope francis is that he’s not at his best with vips; in their company, he takes on a lugubrious look. with ordi...
Our society needs a Scrooge-like conversion
forget the panto; the classy destination in the run-up to christmas in london is simon callow’s terrific one-man rendition of a christmas ca...
Melanie McDonagh: Cardinal Wolsey’s better angels
commonly, a book or a play about a historical character follows on from what historians have had to say about him. think of the musical hami...
Self-denial should be for Catholics, too
The fuss we make about giving up sweets seems ridiculous when a billion Muslims aren’t even drinking water. Catholics once took abstinence seriously
Melanie McDonagh: Self-denial should be for Catholics, too
ramadan, the muslim month of fasting and prayer, started last weekend, days after the manchester bombing, in which salman abedi killed 22 pe...
Melanie McDonagh: The heavy burden of forgiveness
the death of the moors murderer ian brady hasn’t brought out the best in us, has it? “monster of the moors is dead” is the daily mail headli...
The party must go on – yes, into February
one of the downsides of starting christmas so soon is that it finishes too soon. obviously, if the season starts commercially just after hal...
The party must go on – yes, into February
The modern tendency is to start and end Christmas early. Let’s return to our roots and celebrate until Candlemas
Melanie Mcdonagh: Why did Jesus praise the poor?
you know, when our lord called money “that tainted thing” (luke 16), i’m sure he was right, but not quite so sure that he took on board the ...
Melanie McDonagh: A medievalist’s guide to dying
jonathan riley-smith was a distinguished historian, perhaps the most eminent contemporary historian of the crusades, but of all his achievem...
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