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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...
Staff writers
The Big Story: Speculation mounts over Vatican constitution
what happened? more details have emerged about possible changes to the vatican’s constitution. the spanish magazine vida nueva published det...
Staff writers
IRS grants Satanic Temple recognition as a 'church'
a satanic group has announced they have been granted recognition as a church by the internal revenue service. in a statement published thurs...
Catholic News Agency
A liberating joy: Easter in Kinshasa
every holy week begins with the celebration of palm sunday. for us in the democratic republic of congo (drc), there is no shortage of palm l...
Antoine Roger Lokongo
Prize crossword 0590
cryptic across 6 steal, and the old testament requires death in the end: he was stoned (6) 8 book about one son of abraham, virtually the fi...
Alun Evans
There are three different kinds of spirituality. We need them all
where should we be casting our eyes? upward, downward, or just on the road that we’re walking? well, there are different kinds of spirituali...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The Resurrection is only the beginning
second sunday of easter acts 5:12-16; rev 1:9-13 & 17-19; john 20:19-31 (year c) the gospels conclude with the resurrection of jesus on ...
Bishop David McGough
St Paul VI's other earth-shaking encyclical
sent to proclaim the gospels by jim mcmanus cssr, redemptorist publications, 164pp, £12.99/$15 pope paul vi’s great encyclical on evangelisa...
Fr Denis Blackledge SJ
Surviving Nazism with help from Bach
one hundred miracles by zuzana růžičková (with wendy holden) bloomsbury, 368pp, £18.99/$25 holocaust survivor stories follow a regrettably (...
Michael White
In praise of Notre-Dame's 8,000-pipe organ
devastation and disbelief was our response when we watched the gothic cathedral notre-dame de paris ablaze, shorn of its collapsed spire and...
Jens F Laurson
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