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Refreshingly honest account of Queen Victoria: from foibles and failings to her sense of duty and religious leanings
queen victoria and her prime ministers: a personal history anne somerset william collins, £30, 630 pages for two-thirds of the last two cent...
Fr Mark Vickers
'The Damascus Events': How the 1860 massacre shaped the modern Middle East
the damascus events: the 1860 massacre and the making of the modern middle east eugene rogan penguin: allen lane, £30, 400 pages on jul...
Alexander Faludy
EDITORIAL: Not clever; not funny; just crass
the creative director of the opening ceremony of the paris olympic games, the engagingly named thomas jolly, made clear at the outset that i...
The Catholic Herald
Pride: How it is intimately bound up with the rejection of God's omnipotence
the university of oxford hosts a sermon every year in st mary’s church on the sin of pride. part of the joke, in my day, was that they used ...
AN Wilson
Bishop Barron slams ‘gross mockery' of Last Supper and Christian Faith during Olympic Games opening ceremony
bishop robert barron has gone online to lambast what he calls the “gross mockery” of the christian faith that occurred during the opening ce...
The Catholic Herald
Vatican takes down online poll on Synodality as the ‘Nos’ rack up
the vatican quickly took down an online poll on the concept of "synodality" after a strongly unenthusiastic response from several thousand u...
Elise Allen
New ‘God’s Gang’ cartoon tries hard to explore interfaith dialogue and relations – but fails
superheroes, evil aliens, trippy plotlines, comic disproportion, a farting planet. the new cartoon series god’s gang has all the trappings o...
KateBanks
Why the Book of Jonah is full of enigma, by Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM
there are many biblical books that fascinate me, from both the old and the new testaments. reading genesis, exodus and the psalms always mov...
Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM
Benjamin Britten's surprising habit of 'Christianising' non-Christian stories in his operas
benjamin britten was one of those composers whose religious leanings were unclear; and as a gay man in mid-20th century england, he had few ...
Michael White
Rupnik art dispute more complicated than it appears, argues art historian
as accusations of sexual abuse have mounted against father marko rupnik, his art has increasingly come into question and under the microscop...
Elise Allen
Islam in British democracy and the dangers to our Jewish neighbours
for the first time, this 4 july a british general election will be fought in part over islamic ideology. there are currently four constituen...
Gavin Ashenden
A smile from Monteverdi
michael white enjoys the delight of the vespers and a radical reimagining of carmen. to hear monteverdi’s vespers of the blessed virgin is t...
Michael White
SPECIAL REPORT: Jerusalem's Armenian ceramics tell a story of Christian craftsmanship against the odds
balian ceramics is a tranquil space on nablus road, one of the busy thoroughfares in occupied east jerusalem. a group is taking a potte...
CaitlinKelly
Vatican cricket team begins ‘Light of Faith’ UK tour
the vatican cricket team has begun its "light of faith" uk tour, playing two matches over the weekend in buckinghamshire. on 28 june, the va...
The Catholic Herald
The pull of Rome: Once visited, never forgotten – the Eternal City calls again
everyone should miss a flight at least once – as long as the location is congenial, the circumstances understandable and the mitigation reas...
Serenhedd James
Secularism under Scrutiny: Why restless hearts find their questions answered in God
secularists are worried; all is not well. richard dawkins in particular is deeply distressed and disturbed. a wave of high-profile christian...
Gavin Ashenden
Ring dem Bells: an ancient, important and holy Christian custom
in a tweet that upset many people, the prominent atheist richard dawkins declared that he loved listening to the bells of winchester cathedr...
Katherine Bennett
Hallowed in the womb: John the Baptist represents the whole history of Israel
the nativity of st john the baptist falls on june 24. almost every sermon on this occasion remarks that it is an unusual thing to celebrate ...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Lord Mayor welcomes Japanese Royal couple to Westminster Abbey
london’s city of westminster took centre stage for the official state visit to the uk by emperor naruhito and empress masako of japan. the l...
The Catholic Herald
On the Record: recommended listening for Corpus Christi and Ss Peter & Paul
proclaimed before the gospel on the feast of corpus christi, lauda sion is one of the four medieval sequences that remain in annual use. the...
Alex Hodgkinson
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