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Finding God on a Mountaintop
as i kissed my fiancée soledad goodbye at the airport, i felt full of excitement. it was 12 october 1972, and i was off to santiago in chile...
Coche Inciarte
On pilgrimage to St Winifrede's Well with Clare Asquith
where would you go? twenty years ago, almost by accident, my husband raymond and i discovered st winefride’s well at holywell. we were drivi...
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A new history of British India
peace, poverty and betrayal: a new history of british india roderick matthews, £25, 416 pages, hurst london _________ nations are sometimes ...
AN Wilson
Top 75 Catholic leaders in the UK today
joe biden’s election as the second catholic us president has been a reminder of the important influence that catholic leaders today are maki...
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The 2021 Holy Year of Jubilee in Santiago
with the pandemic keeping so many imprisoned in their own homes for months, perhaps there has never been a better year to consider walking t...
Curtis Williams
A Pope for our times
one of the things one looks forward to when opening a john cornwell book on the latest civil war battle in the church, or a new papal portra...
William Cash
Hopkins the Hermit
for gerard manley hopkins, the wilderness – especially in spring – was his dark, unforgiving city. a place not of pain and suffering but of ...
Nick Ripatrazone
No ordinary story
the smallest man frances quinn, £14.99, 381 pages, simon & schuster, 2021 ________ one of the most affecting scenes in the smallest man ...
Gareth Russell
Bridge over troubled waters: Joe Biden and Catholicism in the US
joe biden and catholicism in the united states massimo faggioli, £18.99, 176 pages, bayard ________ on paper, it looks like a takeover: not ...
Theo Hobson
Crisis? What crisis?
cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul, philadelphia (credit: shakzu, istock) one of my favourite pastimes as a priest is listening to ...
Eric Banecker
The battle of the papal biographers
there is a magnificent scene in paolo sorrentino’s the young pope in which pius xiii, played by jude law, sits open-mouthed at a table in th...
Serenhedd James
The pursuit of truth, not bells and smells
when i told my literary agent friend that i wanted to write a book about converts to catholicism during the sixty heady years before the vat...
Melanie McDonagh
The entrepreneurs with a higher calling
is it possible to be a good christian and a successful entrepreneur? the bible encourages believers to exploit their talents, which surely i...
Luke Johnson
The saints searching for sustenance
over the course of a long friendship that began at school, my old pal jacob rees-mogg, member of parliament and roman catholic – though not ...
William Sitwell
Papal Attraction: The trials of pontifical biography
several years ago, in the cosy bosom of soho’s academy club, patrick reyntiens the preeminent stained glass artist and devout catholic, stoo...
John Cornwell
Diary: I read this one already
at the beginning of lockdown, i spent a lot of time debating with myself – no one else around to take me on – about the spirituality of mass...
Antonia Fraser
Honestly Intellectual
mary wollstonecraft would not have liked me. for one thing, she didn’t care much for catholics. as i describe in my new book, she made a dis...
Sylvana Tomaselli
For a bestseller, just add religion
how do you solve a problem like maria? so asked the nuns of nonnberg abbey in the sound of music . (pause, please, in remembrance of christo...
Constance Watson
A walk among the ruins
the clarendon way runs from the river avon close to salisbury cathedral in wiltshire to the river itchen near winchester cathedral in hampsh...
Michael Hodges
Poetic Justice for Geoffrey Chaucer
the furore over the poet of the canterbury tales being culled from english literature courses taught at various universities, in an attempt ...
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