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Jerusalem's archives: a tantalising glimpse of a lost world
jerusalem: city of the book by merav mack and benjamin balint yale, 272pp, £20/$30 is there anything new that can be said about jerusalem, t...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
How Woodstock ended in a trash-strewn quagmire
woodstock: three days that defined a generation (bbc iplayer/amazon prime/pbs) offers a somewhat unexpected picture of the 1969 rock festiva...
Carl Curtis
The strange decline of Catholic hymns
when pope honorius crowned the fourth lateran council (1215) by proclaiming the new feast of corpus christi – a triduum of joy from the thur...
Anthony Esolen
The Communal First Saturdays devotion is spreading
a new movement dedicated to fulfilling a request made by the blessed virgin mary at fatima has arrived in britain. the communal first saturd...
Simon Caldwell
The week ahead: Retreat, Pope in Africa, Day with Mary
fr jacques philippe comes to london next week, to give a weekend retreat at holy apostles church, pimlico. fr philippe, whose books have sol...
Staff writers
Heretic of the week: Charles Webster Leadbeater
cw leadbeater (1854-1934) was a most remarkable – not to say bizarre – man. of middle-class background, he was ordained an anglican clergyma...
Charles Coulombe
God can't be known through casual acquaintance
the 21st sunday of the year is 66:18-21; heb 12:5-7 & 11-13; lk 13:22-30 (year c) the book of isaiah concludes with a vision of unsurpas...
Bishop David McGough
Don't try to pigeonhole Cardinal Müller
i will not describe cardinal gerhard müller, formerly prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, as a “conservative” cardina...
Francis Phillips
The 500-year-old book that overwhelms its owners
the lost gutenberg by margaret davis atlantic, 304pp, £16.99/$27 what has been nicknamed “the commode”, “the whale” and “#45”? those of you ...
Matt Thorne
Finzi's choral works: from sorrow to the sublime
melancholy lingers about much of gerald finzi’s oeuvre. the sadness of his early life contributed, as did his later ill health. finzi’s musi...
Francis O’Gorman
Funeral eulogies? Save it for the wake
a priest in county cork has caused ripples by deploring the nature of some of the gifts brought to the altar during a funeral mass. these, s...
Mary Kenny
Argentina: Where did it all go wrong?
few things in the realms of the human psyche can prove quite so traumatising as the loss of a high status once enjoyed. the history of argen...
Andrew Cusack
What it means to be an American Catholic
what is america? is it a land, molded by geology and industry, and pregnant with legend? is it a people, shaped by a common history and a sh...
Brandon McGinley
The week ahead: Little Sisters, St Augustine and an English martyr
the little sisters of the poor celebrate the 150th anniversary of their presence in philadelphia on saturday august 24. there will be a mass...
Staff writers
Intelligence is not enough
there’s a huge difference between being bright and being wise, between brilliance and wisdom. we can be highly intelligent, but not very wis...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Heretic of the week: The Count of St Germain
the annals of heresy give one many strange figures to contemplate. but definitely in the running for the title of strangest of all is the bi...
Charles Coulombe
This vivid guide to cathedrals forgets what they were built for
ships of heaven: the private lives of britain’s cathedrals by christopher somerville doubleday, 352pp, £20/$39.95 this is the book in which ...
Michael Duggan
The world's oldest music festival continues to fascinate
christmas came early to gloucester last week where, on a sultry august day before an audience in summer shirts and sandals, the cathedral ga...
Michael White
Suddenly 'conspiracy theories' look all too plausible
much has been made in recent days of the prescient verisimilitude of stanley kubrick’s final film, eyes wide shut, which celebrated its 20th...
Sohrab Ahmari
The treasures of Catholic Texas
given the size of texas – it’s the second largest us state, and three times the size of the uk – opportunities abound for finding hidden tre...
James Jeffrey
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