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A glimpse of heaven at Sir John Soane's Museum
architectural drawings: hidden masterpieces from sir john soane’s museum by dr frances sands batsford press, £35, 159 pages "we’ll make heav...
Serenhedd James
A requiem for a Church
a people’s church: a history of the church of england by jeremy morris profile books, £30, 480 pages the defining and unhappy image of the r...
William Davage
On Pilgrimage with Terry Eagleton
where would you go? saint-maximin-la-sainte-baume, a village not far from aix-en-provence. its basilica is dedicated to mary magdalene and u...
The Catholic Herald
Wood engravings revisited
pen worn, hand weary and eye dimmed from transcribing text after text for the continental book market, the adoption of the new process of bo...
Adam Dant
Symbolic stance
the church of england’s consistory courts are not normally at the centre of the culture war. these bodies – there is one in every anglican d...
Niall Gooch
Faithful unto death
in the mid-1950s, the composer francis poulenc was commissioned to write a new opera. his choice of story – the martyrdom of a group of carm...
Archie Hill
Internal bleeding from severe shoulder injury caused death of Jesus Christ, says doctor-turned-priest
jesus died from a heart attack brought on by fatal internal bleeding from a ruptured artery in his shoulder, a doctor-turned-priest has said...
Simon Caldwell
Easter Issue – Ukraine's Calvary
leaders pray for peace in ukraine how one book changed perceptions of the reformation in england celebrating the truth of christianity at ea...
The Catholic Herald
Learning how to be forgiven
perhaps the most dominant moral mistake of the modern age is the assertion that we are – or fundamentally ought to be – in control of our li...
Ken Craycraft
On Pilgrimage with Colm Tóibín
where would you go? venice. you can buy a ticket which will get you into 14 churches and it includes a map. some of the 14 churches ar...
The Catholic Herald
Diary: "The key to sustainability is working in harmony with nature"
tuesday – an invitation arrives from stratford-upon-avon town council. would i like to attend the conferment of the freedom of the town upon...
Jonathan Bate
Celebrating the truth of Christianity at Easter
this is our easter issue, the time when we celebrate the central truth of the christian faith, that christ died and rose from the dead. it i...
The Catholic Herald
Putin, Kirill and the Vatican
there are many who see in patriarch kirill’s reluctance to condemn the russian invasion of ukraine, evidence of caesaropapism. certainly, it...
Mark Jenkins
Shining a light on faith
navigating the relationship between science and faith can be something of a minefield. fr georges lemaître (whom i wrote about last month) w...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
Friends reunited
four things came to mind when a neighbour’s ceramic bird-feeder shot past my study window before disintegrating with a crash against the gar...
Serenhedd James
The risen Christ in the four Gospels
when we think about easter, and particularly about the appearances of the post-resurrection christ, we are almost certainly going to be thin...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Pray for peace in Ukraine
the pope could hardly be clearer about how he sees the war in ukraine. speaking in the vatican at the height of the russian attacks on mariu...
The Catholic Herald
A thoughtful tale but not a novel
julian barnes has always looked more like a french philosopher than an english novelist. with his latest novel, elizabeth finch, about an ex...
Sophia Waugh
Thinking with Roger Scruton
roger scruton was not a catholic. while this point is uncontested, his relation to christianity has become a point of contention. after his ...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
It is time for some self-reflection at Jesus College, Cambridge
life is filled with tragic juxtapositions. jk rowling writes stories that light up the lives of many, and uses her wealth to improve people’...
Nicholas Reed Langen
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