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A communion conundrum
until my late father-in-law went into a care home and forgot about church, he’d only missed mass twice in the entire course of his nine deca...
Cressida Connolly
Surviving the holiday
july is a month of leisure and fruitfulness, holidays in which to bask in decent weather and drink exotic cocktails, cereal crops that swell...
charlie-hart
Smaller wedding – stronger sacrament?
i wonder whether we should really be lamenting the latest delay of so-called freedom day quite so much. confusingly, under new rules there w...
Constance Watson
Diary: Paying homage to Our Lady of Lord's
mass during the pandemic has generally been more old than new rite, extraordinary rather than ordinary. it turns out that many modern ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg
The Passion(fruit) of St Swithin
what an amazingly versatile food an egg is. i well remember as a child the slogan of “go to work on an egg”, the very successful advertising...
Tessa Balfour
Reappraising Rome’s rock-star emperor
like the emperor nero, the british museum knows how to put on a show. that hangar of a space bearing the sainsbury name can sometimes overwh...
Lucien de Guise
Holy fool of letters
a new biography of dh lawrence, burning man: the ascent of dh lawrence by frances wilson, is an opportunity to reflect not only on the life ...
Theo Hobson
Rediscovering Ronnie
a few years ago i returned from the bodleian to find a small parcel in my college pigeon hole, placed there by the senior tutor. it containe...
Serenhedd James
A home away from home
when i was preparing to leave london for the south welsh countryside early last year, a priest friend warned me not be complacent. “people l...
Olenka Hamilton
Mysteries of the hidden oratory
very few secret catholic chapels from the 16th century have been identified in england – fewer, indeed, than the “priest holes’”(properly ca...
Francis Young and Brigitte Webster
Seville's ancient alchemy of agony and ecstasy
goodness knows what non-catholics, let alone atheists, must make of it all when visiting seville. you can’t move in the capital of southern ...
James Jeffrey
Tackling modern slavery head on
modern slavery exists somewhere in the supply chain of every company in britain today, according to peter hugh smith, ceo of investment firm...
Olenka Hamilton
Conquest and consent
the arab conquests by justin marozzi apollo, £18.99, 256 pages between 634 and 750 ad, arabs created an empire larger than those of al...
Philip Mansel
Surveying three Ordinariate churches
the personal ordinariate of our lady walsingham was established on 15 january 2011 by pope benedict xvi in accordance with the apostolic con...
Michael Hodges
‘Dominicans value the intellectual life’
when i was a novice, our novice master told us that, while god has promised that the church will endure until the end of time, no such promi...
Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth
Fighting for victims
nazir afzal is the new head of the cssa, the church’s safeguarding body, a role he took on only recently. he’s a muslim: it was a widely wel...
Melanie McDonagh
'I've got to be obsessed'
lady antonia fraser greets me from behind a mountain of books as i enter the drawing room in her holland park home. she is sitting, resplend...
Constance Watson
No duty to die
assisted suicide is back on the legislative agenda with baroness meacher’s private member’s bill to legalise assisted dying in england and w...
The Catholic Herald
The Power and the Gory
it is now 50 years since the 1971 publication of william peter blatty’s bestselling novel the exorcist , inspired by a 1949 case of demonic ...
The Catholic Herald
Dial M for Murder
phone for the fish knives by daisy waugh piatkus, £18.99, 304 pages i haven’t read in the crypt with a candlestick , the prequel to daisy wa...
Daisy Goodwin
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