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When rebellion loses its object
A provocative collection asks what becomes of a subculture defined by transgression when the mainstream abandons its own rules
Joseph Shaw
Zurbarán: painting, piety and the power of stillness
From haunting crucifixions to the quiet intensity of the Agnus Dei, Zurbarán’s work invites a deeply devotional response
Melanie McDonagh
An uninspiring portrait
Christopher Lamb offers a serviceable overview of the challenges facing Pope Leo XIV, but his analysis rarely moves far beyond the obvious
Melanie McDonagh
Angels in the Sistine Chapel
James MacMillan’s Angels Unawares received its world premiere in the Sistine Chapel
Edward Barrett-Shortt
Evelyn Waugh’s death, sixty years on
Evelyn Waugh died on Easter Sunday 1966, after Mass and Holy Communion; six decades later his Catholic imagination remains as striking as ever
Mark McGinness
The Isenheim Altarpiece and the consolation of Christ’s suffering
Grünewald’s wounded Christ was made to console those ravaged by illness and to direct them towards the promise of resurrection
Fr Gavan Jennings
The man behind OnlyFans’ dark legacy
Leonid Radvinsky built his platform into a multibillion-dollar empire, leaving a legacy many argue has damaged relationships and exploited the vulnerabilities of a generation
Jacqueline O'Hara
‘A star of the first magnitude’: Raphael at the Met
With more than 200 works and a deeply scholarly catalogue, the Metropolitan Museum’s Raphael exhibition reveals an artist whose genius continues to shape the story of European civilisation
Michael Sanfey
“Ballet can elevate body and soul together”
In this interview, Claire Kretzschmar discusses perfection, brokenness and the power of classical ballet to restore the sacred imagination
Jan C. Bentz
Louis Theroux’s missed opportunity on the ‘manosphere’
A familiar diagnosis of the manosphere that overlooks the cultural and moral transformations underpinning its rise
Daniel Turner
Conscience and catastrophe in the Thirty Years’ War
A powerful German novel explores how the fraught relationship between faith and political power sowed the seeds of disaster
Francis Phillips
Staging faith and folly: three choral works
Ambitious stagings in Paris and London test the limits of sacred and political music, while Elgar’s neglected oratorio receives a persuasive hearing
Michael White
Perceiving God in creation: the angel-filled world of Francis Thompson
Through poetry shaped by suffering, Francis Thompson urges us to recover the vision of a world still radiant with God’s presence
Joseph Shaw
Contextualising the Great Seige
A review of The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull
HJA Sire
Reason, doubt and grace in Why I Am Not an Atheist
Part memoir and part intellectual history, Christopher Beha explores how honest scepticism can ultimately make belief possible again
Nick Ripatrazone
Hamnet and the myth of the medieval witch
Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet offers a poignant study of grief but replaces the religious world of Shakespeare’s England with a modern fantasy of pagan spirituality
Isobel Yuill
A polymath in an age of midwitterry
In an oversaturated podcast market, Cambridge professor James Orr has launched something different. First Light pairs intellectual range with a distinctly Christian horizon of hope
James Bradbury
A windswept classic stripped of heaven and hell
Emily Brontë’s only novel is a drama of sin, suffering and redemption; this latest film adaptation forgets what made it timeless
Georgia L. Gilholy
Why we still read Tolkien
Beyond hobbits and heroic quests, Tolkien’s work is rooted in a sacramental imagination that continues to speak to modern readers
Fr Michael Halsall
Why beauty belongs at the heart of worship
In conversation with Jan C Bentz, Art historian Elizabeth Lev explains how the Church lost the visual language of faith – and how beauty can teach it again
Jan C. Bentz
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