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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
Wild liturgy with the kitchen sink thrown in
what is a catholic to make of a “mass” in which the celebrant throws the host to the ground and smashes the communion chalice in fury? the a...
Damian Thompson
A melancholy trip among the Travellers
the stopping places by damian le bas, chatto and windus, 320pp, £15 where have they all gone? well might you ask. there was a time when the ...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The popes and American racism
who are you? what is your name? is a work of controlled fury. it opens with an account of the chaos triggered by president trump’s executive...
Michael Duggan
A case for Remain that’s only a little annoying
the will of the people by albert weale, polity press, 121pp, £9.99 "this book was written in a hurry” are the opening lines here; they hardl...
Patrick West
Richard Ingrams: The author who saw Ireland change utterly
when i first went to ireland in 1962, it seemed like a foreign country – more foreign than france, even though the inhabitants spoke the sam...
Richard Ingrams
The importance of silence in Christianity
Alain Corbin has written a detailed history of silence
Francis Phillips
A masterpiece of Catholic art is unveiled in Malta
Manuel Farrugia's Christ the King fresco in Paola, Malta shows modern church art need not be ugly
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
China is trying to bully me – but I won't be silenced
Threatening letters have been sent to my mother
Benedict Rogers
Priests forever
on saturday two men prostrated themselves on the cool flagstones of st george’s cathedral during their priestly ordination for the archdioce...
The Catholic Herald
Dallas Charter: Back to the drawing board
do the current child protection norms need a radical overhaul? the scandal of cardinal theodore mccarrick’s alleged abuse has just become ev...
Michael Warren Davis
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