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Music: Songs of Darkness light up Last Night
the last night of the proms is always a bizarre event. the best-known concert in the world, it mixes melancholia with craziness as a finale ...
Michael White
Horror films know nothing about nuns
sister janet fearns says screenwriters have a lot to learn about the supernatural one moonlit night in autumn 1976, i was wearing the full-l...
Sister Janet Fearns
A double dose of doppelgängers
mark lawson on this month’s best crime fiction fittingly, there are two new thrillers about doppelgängers, although, proving the adaptabilit...
Mark Lawson
Word this week
the 25th sunday of the year wis 2:12 & 17-20; jas 3:16-4:3; mk 9:30-37 (year b) “where do these wars and battles between yourselves firs...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0560
cryptic across 7 nabal’s home with mother, not off (4) 8 something diabolical, a factor unknown in famous theatre’s closing down (8) 9 befor...
Alun Evans
Melanie McDonagh: Cardinal Wolsey’s better angels
commonly, a book or a play about a historical character follows on from what historians have had to say about him. think of the musical hami...
Melanie McDonagh
Monks of Tibhirine to be beatified in Algeria in December
Cardinal Becciu will preside over the ceremony of the feast of the Immaculate Conception
Staff Reporter
A comedy obsessed with divine justice
Dante thought politicians had ruined Italy. His poem takes revenge
Ian Thomson
Rome’s buried battle
archaeologists have discovered remarkable physical evidence of constantine’s defining victory at the milvian bridge a few years ago, an open...
Desmond O'Grady
Council of confusion
australian catholics are preparing for a ‘plenary council’. but the church is in danger of encouraging false expectations jump on to any dio...
Natasha Marsh
Music: Elegant, meticulous…but still Karajan-lite
when simon rattle left the berlin philharmonic – by tradition, expectation and occasional reality the finest orchestra on earth – the job of...
Michael White
Duellers, dog lovers and head-banging bishops
a field guide to the english clergy by the revd fergus butler-gallie, oneworld, 192pp, £12.99 if one were to run a competition to find the f...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Fr Dominic Allain: The men who knew McCarrick
i had hoped not to write about the abuse crisis again, but actually everything i do reminds me of it. school and seminary have begun again, ...
Fr Dominic Allain
How to get teenagers interested in the faith? Try this film about John Paul II
'Karol, the man who became Pope' mixes modern history, moral dilemmas and human situations
Francis Phillips
Diary: by Stephen Withnell
this week pupils across england and wales will return to school. it is an exciting time, full of promise and opportunity. this is certainly ...
Stephen Withnell
My teacher’s unforgettable lesson
ah, the crisp days of september, when we remember going back to school. i can still smell the leather school bags, visualise the new school ...
Mary Kenny
Arts essay: The curious cult of the ‘French Elvis’
it’s a late summer morning at the église de la madeleine in paris. as tourists wander into the imposing neo-classical church, hundreds of th...
Jean-Christophe Laurence
Classical: We’re no longer the Land Without Music
for a land without music, as the germans used to call us, we british don’t do badly when it comes to sending conductors overseas to run the ...
Michael White
Film: Polish heroes who defied the doubters
the year is 1940, and the battle of britain is going so badly for the raf that the top brass are reluctantly considering allowing a group of...
Will Gore
From popes and purgatory to horror films and rap
dante’s divine comedy by ian thomson, head of zeus, 280pp, £18.99 the notion of a literary canon is an unfashionable one. on english courses...
Matt Thorne
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