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Look closely and you can find the saints in Shakespeare
when most of us think of shakespeare we don’t immediately connect him with the saints. we might think of the play sir thomas more, on which ...
Joseph Pearce
How the abundance of nature expresses the love of God
i had a few hours free and from somewhere, i am not sure exactly where, came a compelling desire to see bluebells. i took myself to the roya...
Fr Dominic Allain
The Best of the Web: France, St Augustine and bad thoughts
against romantic melancholy on france at first things, nathan pinkoski and jean-baptiste pateron said that “conservative romantics who love ...
Staff writers
Film on Austrian priest killed by Nazis gets Iowa world premiere
the film "otto neururer: hope through darkness," based on the life of the first austrian priest killed in a nazi concentration camp, had its...
Catholic News Service
Pope commends North Macedonians for respect among cultures, ethnic identities
speaking to north macedonian authorities tuesday, pope francis commended the country for its tradition of peaceful coexistence among its var...
Catholic News Agency
L'Arche founder Jean Vanier dies aged 90
jean vanier, the founder of l’arche, has died in paris, aged 90. in a statement on l'arche’s website announcing vanier’s death, its leaders ...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
Christian persecution 'near genocide levels'
the worldwide persecution of christians is at near “genocide” level, a report for the british government has said the review, led by the ang...
Nick Hallett
Neo-paganism is at the dark heart of the alt-right movement
katie mchugh, who gained fame as a provocateur of the white nationalist “alt-right,” has left the movement. in a recent interview , mchugh’s...
C C Pecknold
If Kate Smith's statue falls, what about Margaret Sanger's?
the past few years have witnessed in these united states an orgy of something once thought confined to revolutionary dictatorships: the mass...
Charles Coulombe
Gene Wolfe: a Catholic from the far future
gene wolfe, who died last week at the age of 87, imagined vast, strange worlds in his fiction – and revealed them in flickering glimpses. hi...
David Randall and Christopher Welser
Heretic of the Week: John Knox
john knox (c 1512-1572) was born sometime between 1505 and 1515 in haddington, scotland. he is thought to have studied at either the univers...
Charles Coulombe
The honour of suffering humiliation
the third sunday of easter acts 5:27-32 & 40-41; rev 5:11-14; jn 21:1-19 (year c) christ is alive! he is our hope, and in a wonderful wa...
Bishop David McGough
Plato, Peppa Pig and the power of darkness
darkness: a cultural history by nina edwards reaktion books, 288pp, £16.99/$27.50 buttons. offal. weeds. nina edwards has written books abou...
Michael Duggan
A medieval cure for modern man's unease
curing mad truths by rémi brague university of notre dame press, 133pp, £25/$29 rémi brague argues that the modern project has failed, and t...
Edward Feser
The men who stopped Bonnie and Clyde
they’re young, they’re in love, and they kill people.” that was the famous tag-line for arthur penn’s bonnie and clyde (1967), as unforgetta...
Carl Curtis
Don't let architects ruin Notre-Dame
notre-dame has been saved from total ruin by the firefighters. the principal relics and works of art were saved too. commendable bravery all...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Leonardo at 500: Catholicism was the real Da Vinci Code
the leonardo renaissance sweeping the globe over the past few years will hit fever pitch this month as the world remembers his death 500 yea...
Elizabeth Lev
Does the future belong to the 'nones'? It's not that simple
‘the nones have it.” so goes the conventional wisdom on american religiosity. we’re told that those who identify with the faith of “none” – ...
Michael Warren Davis
The gaps in the Vatican's draft constitution
the talk last week was all about the impending reform of the roman curia, to be accomplished – on paper, at any rate – by way of an apostoli...
Christopher R. Altieri
The Week Ahead: UK March for Life, crisis talks, Tolkien movie
saturday 11 may sees britain’s annual march for life, which will take place in london for the second year running. speakers include the camp...
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