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Books, film, music, ideas. Catholic life in the wider conversation.
On the fall of Satan
on the first sunday in july, we read from the beginning of luke 10 about christ sending out 72 of his disciples as heralds of his coming. th...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Cutting liberalism down to size
liberalism and its discontents by francis fukuyama profile books £16.99, 192 pages the term “liberalism” is a monster that has grown large a...
Theo Hobson
Musical healing
sir james macmillan is a modest man for such a famous composer, but he knows what i mean when i compare him to god. composers, like other ar...
Gertrude Clarke
Muscular Christianity
eights week in oxford always heralds the approach of midsummer. the various college boats strive to outdo each other on the river, with triu...
Serenhedd James
Exaggerated greatness: The Wreckers reviewed
the most curious thing about dame ethel smyth’s the wreckers – a “neglected” opera, rescued from the shadows for this summer’s glyndebourne ...
Michael White
Last Call to become a Herald Compostela pilgrim this Holy Jubilee Year
there are still a few places left for our mini-camino in late july in which patrons and readers can pack in all that is best about the famou...
James Jeffrey
An "outstanding" opera and some "memorable" interpretations of Bach
margaret attwood’s scary story of existence under a pernicious christian fundamentalist regime, the handmaid’s tale , made grim readin...
Michael White
Beware the virtue signallers
douglas murray’s latest book, the war on the west , has catapulted public awareness of the severity of the culture wars into a new gear.&nbs...
Gavin Ashenden
Entertaining emperors
the emperors of byzantium kevin lygo thames & hudson, £25, 336 pages it hardly needs saying that any english writer who tackles the hist...
Robin Ward
On pilgrimage with Eamon Duffy
where would you go? to skellig michael. i went there in 1989 after my mother died and i had become rather agitated about my irish iden...
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Foreknowledge and freedom
martin luther is credited with arguing that, because god always knows what we are going to do, we can never act freely. on this view, human ...
Simon Gaine OP
O brother, where art thou?
i like abel ferrara. this is a pedestrian way to start a review, but given how much the bronx-born director divides opinion, it is germane t...
Arabella Byrne
Britten's "Peter Grimes" is a tale for our times
covent garden’s powerful production of "peter g rimes" pulls no punches, writes michael white the seaside town of aldeburgh, in suffolk, has...
Michael White
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
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