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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
Word this week
the 23rd sunday of the year is 35:4-7; jas 2:1-5; mk 7:31-37 (year b) “say to all faint hearts, ‘courage, do not be afraid. look, your god i...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0558
cryptic across 5 it’s outlandish the messiah seeing members of a mecca family (10) 7 reuben, on israel, included benjamin originally (3-3) 8...
Alun Evans
The crimes Ireland hasn’t faced
during pope francis’s visit to ireland last weekend, comparisons were repeatedly drawn between the huge numbers who attended events at john ...
Mary Kenny
Music: Simon Rattle delivers a Ravel suite to die for
i’ve long thought that, should there be a full-sized symphony orchestra to hand, i’d happily die to the closing section of ravel’s mother go...
Michael White
Comic books: The monastic spirit of a fabled island
in the past few hundred years, countless medieval legends and myths have been shoved off to the side, “disproven” by modern historians and s...
Philip Kosloski
Retrieving the glory of the Middle Ages
royal books and holy bones by eamon duffy, bloomsbury, £25 there are historians – and then there is eamon duffy. this book resoundingly demo...
Dominic Selwood
Word this week
the 22nd sunday of the year deut 4:1-2 & 6-8; jas 1:17-18, 21-22 & 27; mk 7:1-8 (year b) "lord, who shall dwell on your holy mountai...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0557
cryptic across 6 talk about a lengthy narrative (4) 7 greeks after menelaus’ loss, left out body to rest (8) 8 nt letter addressed here is, ...
Alun Evans
Music: Is Bach too boring for a biopic?
turning the lives of great composers into theatre is a dodgy task – remembering those 1950s films where grieg or schubert strike artistic po...
Michael White
Omnium Gatherum
i celebrate as my onomastico , or “name day”, the feast of the beheading of john the baptist, august 29. “he must increase,” said the baptis...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
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