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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
Diderot's self-centred rebellion
diderot and the art of free thinking by andrew curran, other press, 320pp, £22/$29 the late, great, arch-reactionary fr jean-marie charles-r...
Patrick West
Discovering the hidden Catholic messages in Tudor sacred music
one of the curious features of the first edition of the book of common prayer is its approach to the event of the reformation. of course the...
Francis O’Gorman
Coco Chanel, the Savonarola of fashion
coco chanel had no precursors in fashion. her forerunners were religious fanatics, the ascetic souls who scourge themselves and their societ...
Matthew Schmitz
Diary: 40 years on, British transport is even worse
when i was a boy, my highest ambition was to be a soldier. i dreamt of a career as a dashing officer in the life guards, adorning myself eac...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
How one diocese is opening a route out of poverty
cardinal vincent nichols has revealed himself as practical man on social matters, seen most notably perhaps in his work with the victims of ...
Simon Caldwell
Overlooked story of the week: Cardinals criticise 'Vatican closet' author
what happened? two cardinals have cast doubt on a recent exposé. cardinals gerhard müller and walter kasper criticised the methods of frédér...
Staff writers
Vatican to open secret archives on Pope Pius XII
the vatican will open the secret archives on pope pius xii, pope francis has announced. pope pius led the church through the second world wa...
Staff Reporter
We were made to be immortal, but we need Christ's help to achieve it
today’s readings take speech very seriously. they assume that there is a correspondence or that there ought to be a correspondence between w...
Fr Thomas Petri OP
Could priests in California be jailed over the Seal of Confession?
last week a california state senator introduced a bill to remove the penitential exemption from mandatory reporting of sexual abuse, in what...
Jordan Bloom
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