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David Goodhart: Don’t blame me for May’s election woes

stephen bush argued in the new statesman recently, with back-handed flattery, that my analysis of british politics based around diverging va...

David Goodhart

The poisoning of American Catholicism

in february 2016, pope francis set off a media firestorm when he took an unprecedented shot at then presidential candidate donald trump. “a ...

Michael Warren Davis

Can anything stop Catholic infighting?

my first parish priest was a little old man with pebble spectacles who looked like a gorgeously coloured beetle as he bent over the altar in...

Damian Thompson

The last night of a spiritual titan

"a giant”: that is how a high-ranking prelate in the roman curia describes joachim meisner, the german cardinal who died suddenly last week....

Marco Tosatti

Our ‘Nonno’ never forgot his roots

my grandfather, charles forte, came with his parents to scotland from italy as a child at a time when that was more unusual. he hailed from ...

Alex Polizzi

Triumph of the box-tickers

the old soviet system of over-bureaucratisation did not die with the ussr; it transmigrated into britain’s higher education system. when i s...

John Charmley

Science and faith: Is Ian Brady in hell?

in may this year an unrepentant ian brady, the moors murderer, died. terry kilbride, the brother of a victim, hoped that brady would “rot in...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

Brexit’s Catholic Mr Fixit

two days before britain voted to leave the european union, shanker singham wrote an article arguing in favour of remain. yet today he is bus...

Luke Coppen

Marawi violence is not religious, say Philippine bishops

The bishops appealed for dialogue with Muslims 'so that our various faiths may not be exploited and abused for the sake of terrorism or violent extremism'

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Mary Kenny: How Charlie Gard united the world

one of the most extraordinary aspects of the charlie gard story is the way in which it has attracted global attention, and such widespread s...

Mary Kenny

Comments of the week

on married priests, we should look east sir – i have read with interest fr ray blake’s blog post (see news focus, page 16) about lonely and ...

The Catholic Herald

A bird was never just a bird to David Jones

‘god save thee, ancient mariner! from the fiends, that plague thee thus!— why look’st thou so?’—with my cross-bow i shot the albatross. what...

Laura Freeman

A rare glimpse of Raphael’s path to perfection

raphael: the drawings , a wonderful exhibition at the ashmolean museum, oxford (until september 3), is the first opportunity in britain to s...

David Scrase

Music: Harry Potter set fails to rescue Debussy

for anyone who thinks of opera as a semaphore activity with sweeping gestures, heaving chests and high anxiety, debussy’s pelléas et mélisan...

Michael White

Theatre: Holiday's fall leaves the audience gasping

audra mcdonald won a great many awards in new york for her solo performance in lady day at emerson’s bar & grill – a tribute to the sing...

Robert Tanitch

The spymaster who crushed British fascism

m: maxwell knight by henry hemming, preface, £20 the epigraph to this fascinating book is the extraordinary statement of em forster in two c...

Jack Carrigan

Fearing the knock of the papal police

anna and tranquillo by kenneth stow, yale, £20 in may 1749 anna del monte, a young jewish woman, was escorted by papal police to the roman h...

Jonathan Wright

Briefly noted

the little book of god, mind, cosmos and truth by ken francis (st paul’s, £8.95) . this may be a “little book” but it tackles some of the wo...

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