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Fulton Sheen's brilliant guide to Jesus's last hours

stephen f auth’s the missionary of wall street (sophia institute press, 184pp, £14.40/$15) is subtitled from managing money to saving souls ...

Francis Phillips

Tippett was silly and pretentious, but his works are masterpieces

michael tippett: the biography by oliver soden weidenfeld and nicolson, 768pp, £25/$34.95 it’s virtually a law of nature that composers fall...

Michael White

It wasn't Colonel Blimp who gave us Brexit

anglo nostalgia by edoardo campanella and marta dassù hurst publications, 234pp, £25/$32.95 there has for some time been a popular theory th...

Patrick West

The Last Czars on Netflix: What did the Romanovs do to deserve this?

the last czars, on netflix, juggles documentary and drama with mixed results. the documentary sections, with commentary from a half dozen or...

Carl Curtis

The saint who brought the best out of Dvořák

you think you know antonín dvořák’s music quite well when you are aware not just of his greatest hits but also of the fascinating early symp...

Jens F Laurson

Letters & emails

a weakened china will seek scapegoats sir – the leading article in your july 5 issue emphasises something that is too often overlooked or do...

The Catholic Herald

The cautionary tale of Pastor Amy

trouble roils manhattan’s riverside church, the neo-gothic behemoth on the upper west side that serves as one of the enduring bastions of am...

Sohrab Ahmari

The moon landings? We were more interested in Ted Kennedy

fifty years on, the moon landing of july 1969 still seems an extraordinary feat: perhaps even more extraordinary in retrospect, as the accom...

Mary Kenny

I was agnostic, my friend a 'mere Christian'. We both found the path to Rome

my friend benjamin brazzel’s journey to the catholic church almost began in a mosque. he was invited there by a friend, and was struck ...

Jeff Cimmino

The vote that made me wish I was back in Iraq

i’m afraid this is a very depressing story. i was in the house of commons last week, after a trip to iraq, giving a talk on what life was li...

Tim Stanley

What's the point of Catholic high schools?

somewhere amid all the things that come with being a high school – the football games, the english classes, the hundreds of extracurricular ...

Steve Larkin

Britons may as well be living in the Soviet Union

a christian, felix ngole, has won a court action against sheffield university which threw him off his social worker course because he h...

Ann Widdecombe

Cardinal Sarah: A prophet of our times

the church’s calendar includes the feast days of several of the great figures of the old testament (though observing them is not obligatory)...

Fr Raymond de Souza

What China's Catholics really think of the Vatican deal

recently i strolled slowly up a hill with a local priest in a remote area of china. he remained close to me as we ascended steep slopes to a...

Anthony E Clark

Diary: I wanted to weep when the Mozart of Wimbledon lost

like so many others, i spent my sunday afternoon trying to watch the cricket world cup and wimbledon finals at the same time. i tried c...

Freddy Gray

Is France about to follow Belgium on euthanasia?

it’s escaped most of the world’s attention, but france has been fixated in recent months on the case of vincent lambert a 42-year-old brain-...

Samuel Gregg

Is Big Tech trying to suppress the pro-life movement?

donald trump and elizabeth warren have both made headlines this past week, accusing social media companies of aiding and comforting the enem...

Michael Warren Davis

Rebellion or submission: Why are millennials flocking to convents?

the supercomputer that generates trend pieces about millennials has gone haywire. having been fed a steady diet of breezy reportage about th...

Jordan Bloom

Why MPs are rushing to impose abortion on Northern Ireland

it would be an understatement to say that this parliament is among the least impressive in british history. it will be remembered most notab...

Simon Caldwell

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