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Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past, by James Stourton
heritage: a history of how we conserve our past james stourton head of zeus, £40, 496 pages james stourton chooses a quotation on the theme ...
William Cash
English Victorian Churches: Architecture, Faith and Revival, by James Steven Curl
english victorian churches: architecture, faith and revival james stevens curl john hudson publishing, £50, 240 pages this handsome little b...
Michael Hodges
On the Ninth Day of Christmas: Twelfth Cake revisited
would it be christmas without a dickensian flourish? pen volger introduces the predecessor of the traditional christmas cake, which was a tw...
Pen Vogler
'God wants the very best for you': Benedict XVI in the UK
alex dimminger (kneeling, in orange) was the youth delegate for the diocese of east anglia during benedict xvi’s visit to the united kingdom...
Alex Dimminger
Long Christmas
a happy christmas to all our readers. you may think that this sentiment has somehow got displaced from the christmas issue, but it is in fac...
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On the Fifth Day of Christmas: Crown, sword and mitre
ben stephens reflects on the life, death, and afterlife of thomas becket, who rose to be henry ii’s lord chancellor and archbishop of canter...
Ben Stephens
'Christmas, A Message of Hope': a GB News special for the festive weekend
the fading of christian faith as a vital force in modern britain is nowhere more evident than in the broadcast media; its growing coarseness...
Niall Gooch
New 'queer' carol: Cardinal Nichols expresses concern
you might think that christmas could be nothing but christian, but that would be to underestimate not only the dulling numbing of secular ho...
Gavin Ashenden
Alleged Rupnik victim speaks out about 'sexual, psychological and spiritual' abuse
an alleged victim of father marko rupnik has spoken out about how she was abused by the priest over thirty years ago. in an interview with t...
Olenka Hamilton
Christmas is an antidote to our pampered, egotistical culture
it is no longer fashionable to preach on the “four last things” during advent. death, judgement, hell and heaven are not easy to digest for ...
Gavin Ashenden
Pope Francis orders return of Parthenon fragments to Greece
pope francis has ordered the return of three parthenon fragments which have been held in the papal collections of the vatican museums for ce...
Olenka Hamilton
'Christmas without Bach is unthinkable'
one of the paradoxes of the modern christmas is that we spend a terrific amount on the celebration before the feast and then terminate it ab...
Melanie McDonagh
St Lucy: Italian saint who inspired a Swedish tradition
sweden is far north, cold and secular. yet, every year on the 13 december an italian girl who became a canonised saint of the catholic churc...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
Doing it for themselves
“oh! women simply don’t pass the test,” exclaimed the distinctly infuriating german painter georg baselitz back in 2013. he was mid-tirade a...
Francesca Peacock
Happy holidays?
tourists: how the british went abroad to find themselves lucy lethbridge bloomsbury, 320pp, £20 dostoyevsky, suffering from constipation in ...
Harriet Rix
Census 2021: the hidden threat to church and state
the shift in religious and christian allegiance within the population was always predicted to arrive around about now, and here it is. sudde...
Gavin Ashenden
All in the best possible taste
catholica: the visual culture of catholicism suzanna ivanič thames & hudson, £25, 256 pages the visual has always held a special place i...
Miles Pattenden
Lady Susan Hussey was no threat to Ngozi Fulani
about 6 months ago i was asked by my nigerian friend father m if i would take part in an online conversation about faith in the public squar...
Katherine Bennett
On Pilgrimage With: Julian Fellowes
where would you go? i have long cherished a near-obsessive desire to see petra, the rose-red city half as old as time. last month, i am happ...
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Scion of distinguished recusant family
sir simon towneley died on 11 november, aged 100. he was the first catholic to be lord lieutenant of lancashire, in which office he served f...
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