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Religious freedom is about human dignity, pope says in Morocco
during his first meeting in rabat saturday, pope francis underlined the importance of religious liberty and its connection to the dignity an...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
Actors threaten to boycott Georgia over pro-life bill
almost fifty celebrities have signed an open letter threatening to boycott the american state of georgia should its governor sign a bill mak...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
As Sudan's government steps up the violence, a missionary doctor stays put
dr tom catena has brought the beautiful but war-wounded culture of the nuba mountains to the attention of the world. a lay catholic missiona...
Eldred Willey
I envied the nun who asked me: 'What's a selfie?'
what does it mean to be in the world and not of it? this is an essential question for lent. the christian humanism promoted by the church si...
Fr Dominic Allain
James Clerk Maxwell: Behind the groundbreaking equations, a firm faith
professor maxwell’s duplicitous demon by brain clegg icon books, 304pp, £16.99/$25 names like albert einstein and isaac newton spring easily...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Christians weren't Ancient Rome's only victims
ten caesars by barry strauss simon and schuster, 432pp, £20/$28 one is naturally disposed to be defensive of “western civilisation”, in part...
James Baresel
The forgotten forerunners of St Patrick
saint patrick retold by roy flechner princeton, 320pp, £22/$28 the irish have a talent for promotion in a way their celtic cousins – the wel...
David Platzer
Ricky Gervais's bleak sitcom for atheists
in dover beach, matthew arnold tells his “love” that the world “hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light/ nor certitude, nor peace, nor ...
Carl Curtis
Hans Gál: The composer silenced by the Nazis – and musical snobs
centenaries are ten a penny, but here’s one you might not know about: 1919 saw the premiere in breslau of hans gál’s first opera, der arzt d...
Thelma Lovell
VIDEO: Pope Francis refuses to let people kiss papal ring
pope francis has been filmed repeatedly pulling his hand away from people as they tried to kiss his ring. during his visit to the loreto shr...
Staff Reporter
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
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