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‘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
You are the Old, the Sick, the Poor, or Will Be. Do Unto Others.
on the way in, we walked down a hallway where we could just see in to a few of the rooms where some residents lived who couldn't leave their...
TimothyJones
Pope Francis and Cardinal Marx Do a Dance
july 1858 production of shibaraku at the ichimura-za theater theatre in edo. triptych woodblock print by utagawa toyokuni iii ( public domai...
Christopher Altieri
Profiting from Penance
the new british museum show, thomas becket: murder and the making of a saint , reveals the religious propaganda machine that existed to myth...
William Cash
The Art of Selling Roses
somewhere there is a picture of me in the rose garden at home with my stepmother, aged five or six. i was clearly transfixed by the roses an...
charlie-hart
Brothers in alms
the entrance to the hospital of st cross, next to the st cross symondians cricket club on the outskirts of winchester, is tucked away down a...
William Cash
Reform of penal law rejects E&W bishops' request for language change
-- rome -- the vatican rolled out a reform of its penal sanctions on tuesday. at a press conference in the press office of the holy see, sen...
Christopher Altieri
Christianity and all that
the treasures of english churches: witnesses to the history of a nation, by matthew byrne shire publications, £20, 160 pages and did those f...
Harry Mount
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