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Heretic of the week: Ignaz von Döllinger
ignaz von döllinger (1799-1890) was one of the 19th century’s best-known catholic historians – at least for the first part of his career. bo...
Charles Coulombe
Why art-house cinema can't escape the Bible
believing in film by mark le fanu, ib tauris, 368pp, £60/$78 film critics live in the dark, often literally underground – in basement screen...
Sebastian Cody
A painting worth pondering in Lent
in 1424, the 23-year-old florentine artist masaccio was commissioned to paint frescoes in the brancacci chapel. as one enters this chapel, t...
Michele Bregande
When a Protestant powerhouse turned to Catholic music
dresden, 1650. the thirty years’ war, officially over for only two years, hadn’t just decimated the population of saxony – which, technicall...
Jens F Laurson
A theological thriller that has stood the test of time
orwell thought that the novel was a protestant art form. this may seem silly, especially when you consider the number of catholic novelists,...
Allan Massie
Cardinal Danneels: the man who tried to surf a tsunami
a titan of the european church since the late 1970s, godfried danneels died as a symbol of an exhausted liberal catholicism resuscitated by ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/03/19
catholics have abandoned prayer and replaced it with “the evil of efficient activism” , cardinal robert sarah says in a new book ( french ex...
Luke Coppen
The long read: Ireland must remember that it is truly a land of saints and scholars
under a rough, monkish cowl, skulking in the frayed margins of the historical record, mael dub feels elusive, barely knowable. an irish rove...
Michael Duggan
Competitions expose musicians to the brutal truths of concert life
competitions are the marmite of the music world, applauded by the public for their bloodsports element but loathed by plenty of musicians fo...
Michael White
What it means to love America
february 22 hit me rather hard this year. there are two birthdays that fall on that date which always had a great significance for me, ...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0584
cryptic across 6 curing sort of a fish, girl and boy, for starters (5,7) 7 french festival that’s about names with extreme egos (6) 8 americ...
Alun Evans
When Native Americans backed the Jacobite cause
storm of the sea by matthew r bahar oxford university press, 320pp, £22.99/$35 it was 1715 and a tribal people were preparing to assist in r...
James Baresel
A masterly account of Ireland's descent into civil war
the battle of the four courts by michael fewer, head of zeus, 320pp, £20/$30 michael fewer’s the battle of the four courts is an account of ...
Michael Duggan
Films that take you into the wilderness with Jesus
it’s hard to understand why any director making a film about jesus would ignore the face-off with lucifer. cecil b demille has his mind else...
Deal Hudson
How the avant-garde ruined music
sir roger scruton calls the dutch composer john borstlap “one of the truly remarkable intellects of our time, a serious and inspired co...
Robert R Reilly
Lenten etiquette can be its own penance
lent is here again and for the first time in 25 years i have changed my penance, considering that a quarter of a century of drinking nothing...
Ann Widdecombe
Pell, Barbarin and the need for canon law
the legal cases of three cardinals – theodore mccarrick, george pell and philippe barbarin – are a test of the church’s attitude towards her...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Why are civil authorities so scared of prayer vigils?
it is sad to learn that richmond borough council has recently followed ealing council in approving an exclusion zone around an abortion clin...
Francis Phillips
Pope Francis's Marian devotion is an example to us all
it’s considered bad form to respond to negative – or in this case, mixed – reviews of one’s book, and i don’t intend to do that here. but i ...
Sohrab Ahmari
Jesus's temptations - and ours
first sunday of lent deut 26:4-10; rom 10:8-13; lk 4:1-13 (year c) "my father was a wandering aramaean. he went down into egypt. the egyptia...
Bishop David McGough
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