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Salvation is a gift, not an achievement
sixth sunday of easter acts 15:1-2 & 22-29; rev 21:10-14 & 22-23; jn 14:23-29 (year c) "some men came from judaea and taught the bro...
Bishop David McGough
Kociejowski's poems are an antidote to the dumbing down of modern life
collected poems by marius kociejowski carcanet, 99pp, £12.95/$18.99 the literary travelogue – with elements of history, anthropology, person...
Ian Thomson
Why was Britain's elite willing to swallow Hitler's lies?
appeasing hitler by tim bouverie bodley head, 512pp, £20/$25 "not another book on hitler," you protest. “can there be anything more to say?”...
Thelma Lovell
An island of saints and scholars seized by technocrats and wonks
my father left me ireland by michael brendan dougherty sentinel, 240pp, £20/$24 "you leave. i cry.” with these four words, michael brendan d...
Michael Duggan
To hell with moral equivalence: the Soviet spies helped advance evil
set in post-war britain, traitors (netflix originals) plunges its viewers into the world of espionage, chiefly of soviet infiltration of att...
Carl Curtis
How Bach turned the Gospel into sound
faith and the arts are natural partners. both aspire to the fusion of order with a creative leap of the imagination, connecting the ideal wi...
Thelma Lovell
We've come a long way since Cranmer called the pope the antichrist
in 1971, hunter s thompson looked back on his time in san francisco in the mid-1960s in one wistful passage from his most famous specimen of...
Andrew Petiprin
From Sydney to Strasbourg, the Left has forgotten how to persuade
the australian centre-right coalition defied the odds recently to win re-election. as the results came in, former conservative pm tony abbot...
Tim Stanley
How to read a book in five minutes
some 50 years ago my son came to me for help. he was preparing for his a-level history examination. but his mind was so cluttered with facts...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Why can't English footballers celebrate their Christianity?
it was a week of minor miracles, though not as st augustine might have conceived them. even for those who have no interest in champions leag...
Andreas Campomar
Who is in line to succeed the Vatican doctrinal chief?
last week was all about consistories. when will the next one be? who would turn 80 when, and what will it all mean for the church heading ou...
Christopher R. Altieri
Meanwhile: crazy designs for Notre-Dame
the competition has begun. architects are pitching their proposals for the redesign of notre dame – and some of the ideas fall rather short ...
The Catholic Herald
The week ahead: Memorial Day, Marian pilgrimage, and saint on stage
monday may 27 is memorial day in the united states, a federal holiday which always falls on the last monday of may. it is a day of remembran...
The Catholic Herald
Why the Via Crucis is not just for Lent
it might seem unseasonal to blog about caryll houselander’s the way of the cross after easter (gracewing/angelico press, £5.95); my justific...
Francis Phillips
Humility should be the foundation of media work, Pope tells journalists
pope francis told journalists on saturday that their profession has a great responsibility, the foundation of which should be humility. “hum...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
The day Catholic students took on the KKK - and won
the ku klux klan seems like a bit of a joke to most people today, but in the 1920s the organisation was extremely influential. in some state...
Filipe D'Avillez
In an iconoclastic age, Memorial Day survives
this year, memorial day falls on may 27. in my far-off childhood, it was fixed on may 30. but like so many other civil holidays, in 1971 it ...
Charles Coulombe
Poetry and science are both rooted in imagination
the poetry and music of science by tom mcleish oup, 384pp, £25/$35 this book attracted my eye because i combine my role as a science columni...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Is Protestantism the gateway to secularism?
permanent revolution by james simpson belknap, 464pp, £25.95/$35 the reformation is often depicted as the cradle of many excellent ideas: th...
Jonathan Wright
Aretha Franklin, witness to the Gospel
in january 1972, aretha franklin travelled to los angeles to join her good friend pastor james cleveland and the southern california communi...
Deal Hudson
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