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Jiggery-popery in revolting England
catholics during the english revolution, 1642-1660: politics, sequestration and loyalty, by eilish gregory boydell press, £75, 234 pag...
John Adamson
Don't apologise for the inquisition
reviewing a book called inquisition: the reign of fear by toby green, quentin de la bedoyere warns against apologetic attempts to rationaliz...
Lessons from the Archives
Elizabeth Jennings: The Catholic bag-lady of poetry
the poet elizabeth jennings was born on this day in 1926. a devout catholic, she attended st anne's college, oxford, where she lived all her...
FromtheArchives
The English team, he says, is the "enemy of truth, beauty, and goodness"
yes, someone said that. and not a crank either, or at least not the angry living-in-his-mother's-basement crank you meet on the internet. hi...
David Mills
Christian leaders write to South Sudanese politicians on 10th anniversary of independence
the tenth anniversary of south sudan’s birth as an independent nation “calls to mind your past struggles and points with hope to the future,...
Staff Reporter
The Catholic Herald reviews The Hobbit
the catholic herald reviewed j. r. r. tolkien's the hobbit about a month after it appeared. the review in the "children's catholic her...
FromtheArchives
C. S. Lewis: At first sight a disappointment
the poet elizabeth jennings reviews a book of reminiscences about c. s. lewis, whom she heard lecture when a student at st anne's college. t...
FromtheArchives
‘We should never have a perfect Church’
canon law is dinner-party talk once more. in households up and down the country, catholic and non-catholic alike, the canonical form of marr...
David Cowan
Reappraising Rome’s rock-star emperor
like the emperor nero, the british museum knows how to put on a show. that hangar of a space bearing the sainsbury name can sometimes overwh...
Lucien de Guise
Mysteries of the hidden oratory
very few secret catholic chapels from the 16th century have been identified in england – fewer, indeed, than the “priest holes’”(properly ca...
Francis Young and Brigitte Webster
Seville's ancient alchemy of agony and ecstasy
goodness knows what non-catholics, let alone atheists, must make of it all when visiting seville. you can’t move in the capital of southern ...
James Jeffrey
Conquest and consent
the arab conquests by justin marozzi apollo, £18.99, 256 pages between 634 and 750 ad, arabs created an empire larger than those of al...
Philip Mansel
Surveying three Ordinariate churches
the personal ordinariate of our lady walsingham was established on 15 january 2011 by pope benedict xvi in accordance with the apostolic con...
Michael Hodges
The Power and the Gory
it is now 50 years since the 1971 publication of william peter blatty’s bestselling novel the exorcist , inspired by a 1949 case of demonic ...
The Catholic Herald
Dial M for Murder
phone for the fish knives by daisy waugh piatkus, £18.99, 304 pages i haven’t read in the crypt with a candlestick , the prequel to daisy wa...
Daisy Goodwin
Believing in Miracles
graham greene once remarked that the biggest problem of our age lies in the fact that we have lost the ability to believe in miracles and th...
Arabella Byrne
Top Ten Movies: The Playhouse Dramas
this is the first of a weekly series from anthony esolen giving his top ten films in different categories. readers are invited to give their...
Anthony Esolen
C. S. Lewis Would Have Approved of CRT
tory christian though he was, i think c. s. lewis would have approved of critical race theory, at least the way it understands human limitat...
David Mills
Caryll Houselander: Our Christianity is a Utility Religion
caryll houselander was a mystic, religious writer, artist, and notorious eccentric with both a great capacity for work and a willingness to ...
Lessons from the Archives
‘Father of European unity’ on path to canonization
pope francis on saturday advanced robert schuman’s cause for sainthood, authorizing a decree of the congregation for the causes of saints re...
Staff Reporter
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