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Who creates better characters: Marvel or Scorsese?
i recently read a review by dan sanchez of martin scorsese’s the irishman (netflix), “why the marvel movies are better than scorsese's the i...
Deal Hudson
Chesterton's Christmas poems were mediocre – but his prose dazzles
the author most associated with the joy and glow of christmas is obviously charles dickens. apart from the perennially popular christmas car...
Joseph Pearce
How a mediæval carol was saved from obscurity
a young woman is singing her baby to sleep, crooning words of tenderness: “lullay mine liking, my dear son, my sweeting; lullay my dear hear...
Eleanor Parker
Milan Kundera and the long argument with 'home'
it has been a long road back: the author milan kundera, perhaps the most famous living czech, recently had his citizenship restored to him a...
Jenny McCartney
'The ways deep, the weather sharp': A journey in the Magi's footsteps
as a child i found it hard to believe that the world east of bethlehem was real at all. this was a region where fire might fall from heaven ...
Peter Hitchens
A culture of 'openness' has bred dark fears and constant outrage
in early december i leapt across the pond for a short visit to the great capital city of england. even in inward-looking america we were awa...
R.R. Reno
Kerala's radiant Catholicism
last month, pope francis and i were airborne over asia together. in the air at the same time, but on different planes going in opposite dire...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The best of the web
a golden age for films about christianity we live in a golden age of films about religious belief, declared philip jenkins in the christian ...
Staff writers
Cathedral in Iraq's largest Christian town to be rebuilt in 2020
the great al-tahira immaculate conception cathedral in bakhdida remains charred black inside, five years after the islamic state plundered a...
The Catholic Herald
The best spiritual books of 2019
around this time i am trying to decide which books i have read during the year that still reverberate in my memory in a special way. it is a...
Francis Phillips
Archbishop Paglia's grave error
accompaniment has been a watchword of the pontificate of pope francis. it’s a word which normally means that musical part which gives harmon...
C C Pecknold
Morning Catholic must-reads: 13/12/19
“nuclear deterrence can only produce the illusion of security,” pope francis has said in his 2020 world day of peace message ( vatican summa...
Luke Coppen
Divided? Yes. But there's plenty of kindness and optimism in the UK
during the general election campaign, an american journalist from the new york times paid an extensive visit to britain, and reported back t...
Mary Kenny
Justice and charity – revisited
we’re all familiar, i suspect, with the difference between justice and charity. charity is giving away some of your time, energy, resources ...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Why is Western civilisation falling apart?
how the west was lost by ben ryan hurst & company, 192pp, £20/$19.50 the decline of western civilisation has been a persistent topic of ...
Patrick West
The divine discontent of Duruflé
houston chamber choir was formed in 1995 by its conductor, robert simpson, who is director of music at the episcopal christ church cathedral...
Francis O’Gorman
Down with 'Christmas songs'
the past two weeks have been a more than usually musical fortnight. it began with the world premiere of michael maxwell steer’s romantic var...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
The week ahead: Christmas TV, Sheen novena, carol services
choirmaster gareth malone and gospel choir conductor karen gibson reveal the stories and legends behind some of britain’s christmas traditio...
Staff writers
Exclusive data: How Catholics are likely to vote in the General Election
whether there is still such a thing as “the catholic vote” in uk elections is a moot point – no parties seem particularly keen to chase it, ...
Stephen Bullivant
Morning Catholic must-reads: 11/12/19
cardinal luis antonio tagle has urged asian bishops’ conferences to “get our young people and women involved” ( edward pentin ). archbishop ...
Luke Coppen
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