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Theatre: Why I feel sorry for Harry Potter’s son
in the victorian era, the heyday for popular theatre, audiences loved melodrama, spectacle and sensational scenes. “sensation is what the pu...
Robert Tanitch
Television: The biggest celebrities you’ve never heard of
conversations with my mother about celebrities are like a game of guess who? she’ll say: “who’s that man i’m thinking of? he’s married to th...
Tim Stanley
Film: Hunger Games knock-off will leave you famished
nerve (15, 96 mins, ★★ ) as a teenage boy growing up in the 1990s i was duty-bound to love the word, channel 4’s deliriously pro...
Will Gore
Lectio Divina
luke 1:39-56 39 soon afterwards mary got ready and hurried off to a town in the hill country of judea. 40 she went into zechariah’s house an...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Omnium Gatherum
the feast of the assumption of the blessed virgin is celebrated this coming week. from the earliest years, holy church believed that at the ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Piers Paul Read: Channel 4’s post-Christian culture
last monday, flicking through the channels on my television in search of bbc two’s excellent programme on the battle of the somme, i found m...
Piers Paul Read
‘Why on earth didn’t they ask us?’ The churches where Pokémon Go is a nuisance
A backlash has begun – but it's the manufacturers, not the players, who are being blamed
Dan Hitchens
'Mercy received must be mercy shared', Pope tells general audience
The Pontiff told the faithful that Christians must demonstrate to the world how to display acts of mercy towards others
Catholic News Service
'I'm going to go out and glorify God's name': the Christian athletes at the Rio Olympics
Novak Djokovic and Usain Bolt are among the Christian athletes competing this month
Susan Byron
The Young Pope is 'not wildly inaccurate', says HBO chief
A television series starring Jude Law as Pope will premiere this Autumn
Staff Reporter
'Disciples of Satan'? I know what the Pope means, but most parish secretaries are wonderful
Church secretaries should be a cheery voice at the end of the phone to prevent scaring away callers
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Foreign aid failing to reach Christians fleeing ISIS, Middle Eastern bishops say
Christian minorities from Iraq and Syria left feeling 'betrayed' as humanitarian assistance fails to reach them
Catholic News Service
Francis pays silent tribute to Holocaust dead
sitting with head bowed and eyes closed, pope francis has paid silent tribute to the victims of one of the worst atrocities of the 20th cent...
Staff writers
Theatre: Judas upstages Jesus in Superstar revival
andrew lloyd webber and tim rice’s jesus christ superstar is a rock opera for secular audiences, concentrating on jesus’s humanity rather th...
Robert Tanitch
Television: Half-man, half-horse and the black dog
bojack horseman (netflix) is such an unusual show that it’s hard to know how to recommend it without sounding as if i’ve taken leave of my s...
Tim Stanley
An end to growth for growth’s sake
the digital age has brought with it many economic problems. instead of exploring the possibilities for peer-to-peer exchange and broader bus...
Douglas Rushkoff
Mary Kenny: Why the Clintons need each other
the nomination of hillary clinton as the democratic candidate to be president of the united states has been celebrated as a great advance fo...
Mary Kenny
Briefly noted
ignatian formation by janos lukács sj (gracewing, £14.99) . the place of st ignatius’s spiritual exercises in jesuit affections could not be...
Staff writers
When art drove out tweeds and guns
the long weekend: life in the english country house 1918-1939 by adrian tinniswood, jonathan cape, £25 the standard image of the english cou...
Jonathan Wright
Mass Readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, august 7: 19th sunday in ordinary time wis 18:6-9; ps 33; heb 11:1-2, 8-19; mt 24:42a, 44 monda...
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