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English Victorian Churches: Architecture, Faith and Revival, by James Steven Curl
english victorian churches: architecture, faith and revival james stevens curl john hudson publishing, £50, 240 pages this handsome little b...
Michael Hodges
Sins of a honey-toned broadcaster
confessions: life re-examined edward stourton penguin doubleday, £20, 304 pages edward stourton, the distinguished broadcaster from an emine...
Sir Nicholas Coleridge
Catholic-Jewish relations 60 years after Vatican II
jacob’s younger brother karma ben-johanan harvard university press, £30.95, 336 pages i remember once presenting a paper on the theological ...
Dr Bede Rowe OSB
The many parallels between the boxing ring and the spiritual life
martial arts, boxing and the catholic faith seem unlikely bedfellows. once again british heavyweight tyson “gypsy king” fury has retained hi...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
A Protestant attempt to establish a version of Catholicism without the papacy in Rome
i have often been the victim of swot analysis – away-days with colleagues where we are forced to reflect on strengths and weaknesses, opport...
Dr Mark Chapman
Father Brown and the Mystery of Chesterton
with due deference to the originator of the latest foray in to the world of father brown, i doubt many devotees of gk chesterton’s clerical ...
Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman
Piero’s new-look Nativity
after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity, from the early 1480s, returned to public display in the nati...
Hugh Kerr
The astronomy and astrology of the star of Bethlehem
before the 16th century, christians generally assumed that the star of bethlehem must have been some kind of astrological miracle. for insta...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
Benedict XVI: Compassion without compromise
it was thursday 18 august, 2005, and we were on the banks of the rhine in cologne. hand in hand, my friend and i had run, squealing, back an...
Margaret Nicholson
On the Ninth Day of Christmas: Twelfth Cake revisited
would it be christmas without a dickensian flourish? pen volger introduces the predecessor of the traditional christmas cake, which was a tw...
Pen Vogler
Did Dahl even like children?
roald dahl: teller of the unexpected matthew dennison head of zeus, £20, 264 pages perhaps my favourite roald dahl story – and one not, alas...
Alexander Larman
Defenders of the Faith: The British Monarchy, Religion and the Next Coronation
catherine pepinster hodder and stoughton, £25, 352 pages on october 11, 1521 leo x con- ferred the title fidei defensor on henry viii for hi...
William Davage
January blues
my father and i have a long-running minor disagreement about which is the worst month. for me, it’s january. you’re back to work after chris...
Niall Gooch
Our Lady and the Holy Spirit
as the latest pew research census has shown that the catholic church is haemorrhaging people to pentecostalism in south america, it has to p...
Gavin Ashenden
The Story of the Wise Men continues to intrigue and inspire
snow really does bring out my inner imp. i’ve known it in wales, in london, in oxford, in the united states – the impulse to mischief has al...
Serenhedd James
Offering up our suffering helps us unite with Christ
i have a wonderful friend called anna whom i met at my local church about two years ago. i was new to the area and it was my first time at m...
Olenka Hamilton
On the Eighth Day of Christmas: Starting anew
on the solemnity of mary, mother of god, mother winsome sbvm reflects on the ups and downs of the community life that she has led since she ...
Mother Winsome
Benedict XVI: how my time as a humanitarian aid worker led me to his writings
in 2008 i returned to ireland after five years working around the world on international humanitarian programmes – in afghanistan, north kor...
Dualta Roughneen
'God wants the very best for you': Benedict XVI in the UK
alex dimminger (kneeling, in orange) was the youth delegate for the diocese of east anglia during benedict xvi’s visit to the united kingdom...
Alex Dimminger
Death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: Cardinal Nichols
the archbishop of westminster, cardinal vincent nichols, has issued the following statement on the death of pope emeritus benedict xvi. "i a...
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