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Graham Greene is unfashionable, but there will surely be a revival
in 1960 evelyn waugh declined a request to review graham greene’s new novel a burnt-out case. they were friends but the book saddened him. i...
Allan Massie
Why Mexican Catholicism has lost ground since Trent
in writing a book on mexican christianity, one question has been unavoidable: why has protestantism grown and catholicism declined – especia...
Todd Hartch
The people who really keep the Vatican going
in all the talk of curial reform, most of the attention has focused on the top spots: what will they be when the dust settles, and who will ...
Christopher R. Altieri
The Eucharist is both destination and sustenance
the body and blood of christ gen 14:18-20; 1 cor 11:23-26; lk 9:11-17 (year c) "the lord’s revelation to my master: ‘sit on my right, i will...
Bishop David McGough
Escaping the 'raging wee cantons' of Belfast
the ghost factory by jenny mccartney 4th estate, 272pp, £12.99/$17.99 the ghost factory is set in northern ireland at the tail end of the tr...
Michael Duggan
Schoenberg: The founding father of 'heroic modernism'
arnold schoenberg by mark berry reaktion books, 224pp, £12/$19 arnold schoenberg was a composer much given to statements of sweeping portent...
Michael White
A poet's guide to avoiding the fires of hell
spiritual direction from dante by fr paul pearson, tan books, 372pp, £20/$25 in the 700 years since the publication of dante alighieri’s thr...
Patrick Cusworth
Pavarotti's giant appetite for life
any film about luciano pavarotti must deliver the kind of experience that made him the most admired and recognised singer of his age. pavaro...
Deal Hudson
A Catholic writer's revolutionary realism
morley callaghan (1903-1990), a catholic writer from toronto, set out to be a chronicler of the urban scene of his native city. he sought to...
David Staines
Diary: I hope Boris proves his old tutor wrong
what a pleasure it is to listen to the vatican news in latin – or hebdomada papae, notitiae vaticanae latine redditae , to give the broadcas...
Harry Mount
Meanwhile: Wine and Zeffirelli
for two millennia, europeans have been drinking similar wines, according to new research – and we have monks to thank. a paper in the journa...
Staff writers
The witty, cynical lost novel that reflects on the big questions
it is generally agreed that something happened to the culture in the 1960s. immediately during the post-war period, higher education was sti...
Francis Phillips
My grandfather's D-Day sacrifice
on the morning of june 6, while theresa may, president macron, and elderly veterans attended the unveiling of the new british normandy memor...
William Cash
Our true identity is revealed through the mystery of the Trinity
trinity sunday prov 8:22-31; rom 5:1-5; jn 16:12-15 (year c) as creatures, we can never penetrate the mystery of the one god revealed as fat...
Bishop David McGough
Good Omens is a travesty of eschatology
good omens on amazon prime is a five and one-half hour exercise in schoolboy humour, that is, a brand of humour practised by witty adolescen...
Carl Curtis
I've never seen a ghost, but I believe in them
i have never thought it strange that so many people do not believe in god. what i find peculiar is the number of people, many of them sane a...
Richard Ingrams
The sci-fi classic that rose out of Monte Cassino's ruins
it is often said that a writer’s inspiration can come from anywhere, but 75 years ago the muse was to be found falling from the bomb bays of...
Alfred Searls
Cardinal Pell's appeal: what we know so far
last week, cardinal pell’s appeal was heard at the supreme court of victoria’s court of appeal, presided by chief justice anne ferguson and ...
Natasha Marsh
US bishops vote to create hotline for reporting abuse by bishops
a nationwide third-party system for receiving confidential reports of "certain complaints" against bishops took a step closer to being imple...
Dennis Sadowski
More than a century later, Sagrada Familia gets building permit
after 137 years of ongoing construction, barcelona's sagrada familia received a building permit on friday. construction on the basilica is e...
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