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Martin Scorsese interview: ‘Catholicism is always in you’
The director was dismissed from the seminary as a young man. But his personal pilgrimage has never ended
Gabrielle Donnelly
Film review: Scorsese's Silence is magnificent and moving
martin scorsese has always had an enigmatic relationship with the catholic church. in the past, the rightly revered director has described h...
Will Gore
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online hats off to the fun and practical saturno catholic bloggers leapt to the defence of the clerical he...
Staff writers
The rediscovery of Catholic art
in 1563, a year before his son was born, john shakespeare was given an unpleasant job. as chamberlain of the corporation of stratford, he wa...
Dan Hitchens
Martin Scorsese interview: ‘Catholicism is always in you’
martin scorsese is talking about vocations. it’s s a subject he knows something about, having studied at a seminary when he was a young man....
Gabrielle Donnelly
Oh, Boris! But actually, he was spot on
when my children were under the age of five, there was a book we enjoyed reading called oh, boris! it was the story of a large, enthusiastic...
Jenny McCartney
The party must go on – yes, into February
one of the downsides of starting christmas so soon is that it finishes too soon. obviously, if the season starts commercially just after hal...
Melanie McDonagh
The saint with Aristotle on his finger
washington dc martin scorsese’s newly released film about jesuit missionaries in japan, silence, joins other films on the courageous jesuit ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The silence that makes us tremble
nicolas diat: what connection do you make between silence and the sacred? cardinal robert sarah: the idea of the sacred is particularly misu...
Cardinal Robert Sarah
Holiness is not to be sneered at
there is something about a great many saints that annoys and even angers some people. thus the recent canonisation of mother teresa revived ...
Richard Ingrams
A tale of three Christmases
this year, for the first time in the history of the state of israel, christmas day will be a public holiday. this is not the result of a sud...
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton
My gift is more ethical than your gift
‘isn’t it marvellous that the royal family only give each other one small gift?” said my friend the other day, before adding: “so classy.” m...
Melissa Kite
Fine Art: In Picasso’s traumatic portraits, we see ourselves
when writing a round-up of exhibitions in london in 2016, certain conflicts emerge. it’s easier to bring together than my esteemed colleague...
Miguel Cullen
Television: The BBC’s oddly acerbic Christmas
a lot of people seem to be gay nowadays. previewing the christmas tv, i discovered that a lead character in last tango in halifax is a lesbi...
Tim Stanley
Music: The baby who turns a continent upside down
whether artists and musicians regard the birth of christ in bethlehem as history or poetry, it’s always been a potent narrative for them to ...
Michael White
Spiritual Books round-up
communion of saints by stephen walford, angelico press, £17 subtitled “the unity of divine love in the mystical body of christ”, this book e...
Francis Phillips
Are northerners truly more civilised?
south by merlin coverley, oldcastle, £12.99 why do we favour one direction and not the other? why has the north, historically, always been p...
Stav Sherez
Briefly noted
catholics confronting hitler by peter bartley (gracewing/ ignatius, £15). bartley has written a well-argued and documented overview of the w...
Staff writers
Omnium Gatherum
christmas is a feast of humbling contrasts. the sight of the eternal word made a speechless babe, destined for the passion, fills our mouths...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Stuart Reid: Beggars need love, not money
go easy with that christmas spirit. don’t make a fool of yourself. think. when a poor man comes in sight, don’t immediately reach into your ...
Stuart Reid
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