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Film: A wildly eccentric biopic succumbs to convention
jackie (15, 100 mins, ★★★ ) how does one secure a legacy? the question has assumed renewed prominence in recent months, with a b...
Mike McCahill
Music: The Daniel Craig of cellists holds the stage
the kings place concert venue is acoustically the best new small-scale hall in london; and the first sounds ever heard there, when it opened...
Michael White
Television: To be a great talent show, it has to be bad
the bbc is simply too polite to do a talent show. the x factor, which remains the best, is cheerfully chavvy and rude. girls in tight dresse...
Tim Stanley
When hymns were swords against heresy
how the choir converted the world by mike aquilina, emmaus road, £15 music is almost universally recognised as one of the greatest gifts god...
Paul Senz
Omnium Gatherum
bernard malamud, the author of the natural, a sub-optimal novel converted into a terrific baseball movie, wrote: “experience makes good peop...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Pastor Iuventus
as a kind of catch-all christmas-and-several-birthdays treat we go as a family to the royal ballet’s performance of the nutcracker. it is a ...
Pastor Iuventus
Prize crossword 0474
cryptic across 7 judge disheartened vatican scholar (6) 8 rahab, a misfit, the first to see the jordan valley (6) 9 a boy’s back-to-front, h...
Alun Evans
Matthew Walther: My dream for my kids: celibacy
few passages in holy writ ring true like st paul’s lines in 1 corinthians about not being able to get a proper look at our own reflections. ...
Matthew Walther
America can unite by following the example of Martin Luther King, not Donald Trump
The President-elect wants 'to make America great again', but his vision is limited
Francis Phillips
Silence shows that priests aren't therapists - they're here to help save our souls
Critics have reduced Silence to a missile in the culture wars. It's so much more than that
Tim Stanley
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online is 2017 the year for a vatican-china deal? negotiations between the holy see and china “are on cour...
Staff writers
Gisela Stuart: Leavers and Remainers unite!
last june the british people reflected on their membership of the european union, and on a turnout of 72 per cent decided by a clear majorit...
Gisela Stuart
The Marian way of winning souls
having lived in london a while, i take pride in my ability to get from a to z (train strikes notwithstanding). at the tail end of a christma...
Jacob Phillips
Scorsese shows us how the Church should be
i cried three times when watching silence at the covent garden odeon. which is surprising because it’s the least sentimental, most masculine...
Tim Stanley
Film: An ironic extravaganza with a joyous heart
la la land (12a, 132 mins, ★★★★ ) in his big-screen musical la la land, damien chazelle does for los angeles what woody allen di...
Jenny McCartney
Television: This Sherlock Holmes is a poor imposter
i do find it hard to watch a lot of modern television. i am, for instance, probably too old to enjoy sherlock (bbc one, sundays, 9pm). ...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Reformation thriller in modern dress
friedrich schiller wrote mary stuart , his first-class political thriller, in 1800. robert icke’s urgent modern dress production at the alme...
Robert Tanitch
Music: A Messiah that nearly had me dancing
like dogs, messiahs are for life, not just for christmas. but they come into their own around december 25. and easily the best i heard over ...
Michael White
Why Martin Luther’s anti-Semitism matters
luther’s jews by thomas kaufmann, oup, £18.99 martin luther’s venomous writings against the jewish people were part of what thomas kaufmann ...
Jonathan Wright
Briefly noted
to know the love of christ by martin hogan (messenger publications, £12.99) . these weekday reflections for the liturgical year 2016-2017 pr...
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