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Television: Love Island girls who just want a husband
love island (itv2, weekdays, 9pm) isn’t a reality show, it’s a wildlife documentary. take six horny girls, put them with six horny guys and ...
Tim Stanley
Film: Rom-com loses its way on Hampstead Heath
harry hallowes, who died two years ago aged 79, was an irishman who lived in a makeshift shack in a small corner of hampstead heath. he hole...
Will Gore
Music: How Britten brought the Dream to life
if you don’t love countertenors (and some don’t) the opening weekend of the aldeburgh festival wasn’t for you – because it was a celebration...
Michael White
Can Muslims accept ‘British values’?
the enemy within by sayeeda warsi, allen lane, £20 this apologia pro vita sua by britain’s most distinguished muslim politician is a well-ju...
Abdul Hakim Murad
Word this week
twelfth sunday of the year jer 20:10-13; rom 5:12-15; mt 10:26-33 (year a) we live in troubled times. outrages committed by the few in the n...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0496
cryptic across 7 confused hiram, out of love, put solomon’s temple here (6) 8 gas smell’s a trap for priest (6) 9 florence’s feature with re...
Alun Evans
Martin Scorsese: Silence was a search 'for the core of faith'
The film maker said the film was part of a journey 'to get to know Jesus better'
Cindy Wooden
If the dubia go unanswered, the consequences could be catastrophic
It is dangerous to the credibility of the Church, that what should be considered good in Germany should be considered wrong in Poland
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Cardinal Nichols: Eucharistic adoration shows God's majesty
"It takes time spent in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament... before we realise that in his far depths our Godhead’s majesty is softly shining," the cardinal wrote
Staff Reporter
Tim Farron's resignation: what people are saying
A roundup of commentary on the Lib Dem leader's decision to step down
Staff Reporter
St John Paul II 'asked aides if he should resign but was advised against it'
Officials and friends said that as the Holy Father he should carry on his mission until the end, his secretary has recalled
Associated Press
Meet the author who shows us how to fight Satan
Sonja Corbitt says we need to learn spiritual combat in our struggle against the Devil
Francis Phillips
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Staff Reporter
Church ‘is being persecuted in Ireland’
the church in ireland is undergoing “persecution”, with people directing “anger” at clergy, bishops have said. speaking at a priest’s ordina...
Staff writers
In brief
vietnamese bishops criticise religion law vietnam’s bishops have criticised a new law regulating religion in the country, saying that religi...
Staff writers
To stop terror, imams must preach damnation
at least this time we heard from the imams, who appeared on television to condemn the terrorism. too often they are nationally silent, even ...
Ann Widdecombe
Television: Dystopian drama takes aim at liberals
the handmaid’s tale (channel 4, sundays, 9pm) isn’t an easy fit for the small screen. it’s the story of offred, a woman living in an america...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Give this bonkers Cold War Woyzeck a miss
georg büchner wrote woyzeck in 1837, the year he died, aged 23. there was no definitive text, just fragments of paper. it wasn’t performed f...
Robert Tanitch
Music: Gilbert & Sullivan are a monumental bore
deathless humour is a rarity. while jane austen, shakespeare and maybe chaucer can still make us laugh across the centuries, lesser masters ...
Michael White
Music: The band that saved Germany from kitsch
can – the singles mute/spoon records, vinyl/cd/download can, typically for a so-called krautrock band, rejected germany’s saccharine post-wa...
Ian Thomson
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