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Andrew M Brown: Gripping music for the easily bored
i thought subjecting two children, aged 10 and 11, to a whole evening of handel might be a strain, that they would be bored and fidgety (per...
Andrew M Brown
Suicide and mental health
as young boy, i longed to be a professional athlete. but soon i had to accept the unwelcome fact that i simply wasn’t gifted with an athlete...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Music: Mozart opera comes dripping with slime
one of the less canonic mozart operas, idomeneo is a piece that stage directors tend to feel they have a licence to maul. and it was mauled ...
Michael White
Theatre: Radical Swan Lake with a royal twist
swan lake is every choreographer’s plaything and tchaikovsky’s score is always a winner. graeme murphy’s radical version for australian ball...
Robert Tanitch
Film: A misanthrope joins an idealistic commune
director thomas vinterberg’s most compelling works – festen and the oscar-nominated the hunt – deal with fractured communities turning again...
Ben Hopkins
Film: The visionary writer who didn’t actually exist
jt leroy – whose mussed hair, punk band t-shirt and unnerved, potent expression captivated writers at first introduction – was in many sense...
Miguel Cullen
How the West became embarrassed about hell
afterlife by philip c almond, ib tauris, £25 augustine knew all about the limits of the imagination. “when we were boys,” he once explained,...
Jonathan Wright
Pastor Iuventus
the feast of st martha (july 29) is a good day to begin a holiday. i always imagine that jesus said those words very gently and indulgently ...
Pastor Iuventus
Pope to nuns: 'It's OK to use social media, but don't let it distract from your vocation'
The Pope said smartphones and computers offer 'useful help', but should not 'become an obstacle'
Associated Press
Heading to World Youth Day for a celebration of love and unity
After hearing the testimonies of friends who went to Rio in 2013, I was adamant that I would make the somewhat shorter journey to Krakow
Daisy Powles
Cardinal Burke: it's reasonable to be afraid of Islam’s desire to govern the world
The cardinal said the best response was to fortify the Christian foundation of our societies
Staff Reporter
Director appeals for funds to revive long-forgotten Catholic opera
A company is seeking to bring The Lost Sheep, a tale of adultery and redemption, to London for the first time
Miguel Cullen
The martyrs of Communism are the modern equivalents of St Perpetua
The author of a new study of Communist persecution tells me why these stories must be kept alive
Francis Phillips
Film: An appetite for hard drugs and soft jazz
Born to Be Blue stays true to its subject – a musician who conjured great beauty no matter how lost he was
Will Gore
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Staff Reporter
Prize crossword 0449
cryptic across 7 i hear you french make magic mumbo-jumbo (6) 8 sports venues christians like to stay on the perimeter of, not near? (6) 9 d...
Alun Evans
Briefly noted
mercy matters by mathew n schmalz (our sunday visitor, £11). professor schmalz uses his own life story as the backdrop for his reflections o...
Staff writers
Music: What it’s like to listen to a Turner painting
dr johnson’s dictionary has no entry for synaesthesia: i don’t suppose it figured much in 18th-century consciousness, and if it had, he woul...
Michael White
Theatre: Theatreland struggles to top real-life drama
at the royal court, during a six-week rehearsal period, playwright anthony neilson and his actors created and developed unreachable from scr...
Robert Tanitch
Film: An appetite for hard drugs and soft jazz
born to be blue ( 15, 98 mins) ★★★★ the music biopic is hazardous terrain for any filmmaker to negotiate as it provides so much opportunity ...
Will Gore
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