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Music: The quartet with a boy band’s swagger
no one has ever come up with a convincing explanation of what makes a conductor and an orchestra a good fit; but when the chemistry works, y...
Michael White
Feted by his fans, abused by racists
making oscar wilde by michèle mendelssohn, oup, 360pp, £20 in january 1882, oscar wilde toured america with a trunkful of lace-trimmed velve...
Ian Thomson
A place where mobile phones don’t buzz
historical noir by barry forshaw, no exit, 220pp, £9.99 as we rush headlong into an uncertain future that seems at once both disorientating ...
Stav Sherez
Prize crossword 0555
cryptic across 3 shanghai’s media circus? (5-4) 7 jazz fan about fifty’s fallen for soft rock (4) 8 nastiest manifestation of a giant (8) 9 ...
Alun Evans
Pope names new deputy Secretary of State
Venezuelan Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra will take up a key role in the Vatican
Staff Reporter
The shallow arguments against religion that refuse to die
Malkin is like one of those tiresome people who accost you in a bar
Francis Phillips
A novelist who loved to keep the reader guessing
If you haven't tried Henry James, the master of ambiguity, this summer would be a good time to start
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The Church already has the tools to deal with failing bishops. But will anyone use them?
The Church needs to be willing to act, and use structures already in place
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Music: Youth and experience in the Swiss mountains
gala concerts can be self-indulgent, over-long, and a complete dog’s dinner when it comes to repertoire. but they can also be extraordinary ...
Michael White
A new approach unlocks the Russian enigma
the tragedy of property by maxim trudolyubov, polity, 226pp, £17.99 in the mid 1990s i did a stint in the bbc’s moscow bureau. it was high s...
Robin Aitken
Scorsese’s strange loss of originality
martin scorsese’s divine comedy by catherine o’brien, bloomsbury, 224pp, £50 of all living film directors whose work lends itself to a theol...
Matt Thorne
Another look at a misunderstood movement
as is the case for much of the 19th century’s best art and architecture, the works of the pre-raphaelites can seem to be motivated by a desi...
James Baresel
Prize crossword 0554
cryptic across 1 bible’s drastic inclusion of a first and second book with the same name (6) 4 he prophesied the finding of mum going west t...
Alun Evans
The new Catechism text on the death penalty will damage the Church
Yes, the revised wording is unclear. But it certainly seems to imply that previous popes led the faithful into grave error
Edward Feser
Pope Francis sends Chilean bishops handwritten thank you note for action on abuse
The Pope praised the bishops' decisions as 'realistic and concrete'
Cindy Wooden
Pope prays Blessed Paul VI will intercede for 'Church he loved so much'
Pope Francis described Paul VI as a 'great Pope of modernity'
Catholic News Service
A grievous oversight
the fall of archbishop theodore mccarrick, whose resignation from the college of cardinals was accepted by pope francis last saturday, makes...
The Catholic Herald
Missionary work: not just for priests
book extract a parish, by nature, is missionary. it opens out. it does not fold in upon itself. jesus sent his disciples: ‘‘go into all the ...
Cardinal Francis Arinze
Arts essay: Evangelisation as an all-out war on modernity
the great french catholic poet, journalist and polemicist charles péguy died at the first battle of the marne at the very outset of the firs...
John Milbank
A flawed masterpiece of 18th-century satire
it isn’t only priests who struggle with hard questions about human suffering: 18th-century philosophers were exercised about the subject too...
Michael White
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