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Film: A voice for civil rights that can still mesmerise

in 1979, the black american author james baldwin wrote to his publisher proposing a book called remember this house, a personal memoir of th...

Jenny McCartney

The secret place where opera flourishes

if there’s a catalogue of all the theatres that exist in london, i don’t know of it. but there are more than you’d expect, in sometimes hidd...

Michael White

Lenten reflection: Jesus was more than a ‘nice guy’

palm sunday mt 21:1-11; is 50:4-7; ps 22; phil 2:6-11; mt 26:14-27:66 if you ever pay a visit to the scottish national gallery on edinburgh’...

Archbishop Leo Cushley

Harry Mount: The delightful oddness of Gibraltar

no, we won’t go to war with spain over gibraltar, whatever michael howard says. spain can’t afford it – and only 187 of the rock’s 30,000 in...

Harry Mount

The delightful oddness of Gibraltar

Two and a half square miles of peculiarity await visitors to the British Overseas Territory

Harry Mount

The cross is a sign of God's love, not a piece of jewellery to show off, says Pope Francis

Francis said the cross is a symbol of 'the power of God who made himself sin to heal us'

Rhina Guidos

Pope Francis meets British imams at the Vatican

The imams said they were 'deeply moved' to meet the Pontiff

Associated Press

Pope visits Italian region rebuilt after deadly 2012 earthquakes

Pope Francis visited cathedrals in Carpi and Mirandola

Associated Press

Britain does not want to leave Europe, just the EU, says Cardinal Nichols

The cardinal said the country had been divided by Brexit but now it was time to 'move on'

Madeleine Teahan

God weeps for those who stray from him, says Pope Francis

During Lent we should seek to return to him with a whole heart, the Pope said in a morning homily

Cindy Wooden

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Staff Reporter

Can Ireland rediscover its faith – as I did?

Irish society needs to look truthfully at the past it seems determined to bury. I am hopeful, but not especially optimistic for change in my lifetime

John Waters

Music: Playing the trans debate for laughs

music historians spend much time and effort trying to recapture the original experience of artworks that survive for us only as notes on pap...

Michael White

Film: The Lost City of Z

the true-life figure driving the transporting the lost city of z (15, 141 mins, ★★★★★ ) is percy fawcett (charlie hunnam), a jobbing british...

Mike McCahill

Mary Kenny: The unsettling moral of two funerals

two recent irish funerals observed: the first was that of cardinal desmond connell, archbishop of dublin, and the first dubliner to be given...

Mary Kenny

John Charmley: A Churchill or a Nero?

the “good clean tradition of politics has been weakly surrendered to a half-breed american whose main support was that of inefficient but ta...

John Charmley

Briefly noted

how to be holy by peter kreeft (ignatius press, £14) . kreeft is a prolific and highly readable catholic writer on varied topics, including ...

Staff writers

Prize crossword 0484

cryptic across 5 they are placed opposite, against the work of schubert in the poet school (9) 8 point at this moment to evidence winter is ...

Alun Evans

The ferocious foe of Protestantism

thomas more: a very brief history by john guy, spck, £12.99 this a lively and learned little book, but i do not quite understand what it is ...

Jack Scarisbrick

Television: In Sunderland, no one can hear you scream

every detective has to have a gimmick. vera stanhope’s is that she’s from the north. apart from wearing a floppy hat, i can’t see that she’s...

Tim Stanley

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