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Music: Camp Shostakovich and a fake exorcism
bagpipes apart, the scots are not unmusical, so it’s bizarre that at st andrews university they have no music faculty: a sad omission in a p...
Michael White
The most revealing book yet on Benedict XVI
last testament by benedict xvi, with peter seewald, bloomsbury, £16.99 the drill instructor surveyed the new recruits. he was expected to tu...
Luke Coppen
Firecrackers of wit amid the darkness
resolution by an wilson, atlantic books, £16.99 this brilliant novel by an wilson concerns the enlightenment, illustrated in the life of geo...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Briefly noted
maria maddalena de’pazzi: the making of a counter-reformation saint by clare copeland (oxford, £55) . when it comes to early modern carmelit...
Staff writers
Word This Week
the 32nd sunday of the year 2 macc 7:1-2 & 9-14; 2 thes 2:16 – 3:5; lk 20:27-38 (year c) ‘some sadducees, those who say there is no resu...
Bishop David McGough
Prize Crossword 0464
cryptic across 1 common belief it requires fine geordie principles (6,5) 9 one’s doomed to fail not being a cricket-type – perhaps can’t kee...
Alun Evans
Katherine Daniels: Slow down and you’ll see more
i met my late husband, robin, on a quiet day at an event led by him entitled “the poet’s eye”. it was about seeing life the way the poet or ...
Katherine Daniels
Psychiatrists can’t explain demonic possession, says director of The Exorcist
William Friedkin says that 45 years on from the release of his film, there is more acceptance of 'the possibility of possession'
Staff Reporter
The Pope's visit to Sweden was historic, but the gulf between Catholicism and Lutheranism is wider than ever
Schism is the worst of sins and we must all work our hardest for reconciliation
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Jesus's tomb exposed for the first time in centuries
A team of fifty experts working at the site as part of restoration project
Susan Byron
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Staff Reporter
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online a towering leader in an ‘age of giants’ on the feast day of st john paul ii last saturday, one cont...
Staff writers
In brief
holy see and benin sign landmark accord the holy see and the west african state of benin have signed a legal accord on relations between the...
Staff writers
The friendships that history forgot
the first time i attended a service in a catholic church i was 19 years old, and it was the funeral of our friend, the artist kieran mcgoran...
Jenny McCartney
A nuns’ tale of hell that leaves us with hope
the innocents, set in poland in 1945, tells the true story of the red cross doctor madeleine pauliac (“mathilde” in the film) who cared for ...
Benedetta Guarracino
Music: Oxford is entranced by songs of forbidden love
there was a time when serious song recitals seemed like an endangered species. audiences didn’t want to struggle with the usually french or ...
Michael White
Why space remains the great unknown
a fortunate universe by ga lewis and la barnes, cambridge, £18.99 in theory, universes can behave in countless different ways and the odds t...
Jonathan Wright
Word This Week
the 31st sunday of the year wis 11:22 – 12:2; 2 thes 1:11-22; lk 19:1-10 (year c) the book of wisdom approaches the conclusion of the jubile...
Bishop David McGough
Saint of the week: Jude the Apostle (October 28)
jude, ‘not iscariot’ st jude of thaddeus was st james the lesser’s brother and a relative of jesus. biblical scholars agree that he was the ...
Staff Reporter
Prize Crossword 0463
cryptic across 1 address where oriental lives in edom alternatively (4) 3 king’s in high peak, lost without a key (8) 9 store next to railwa...
Alun Evans
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