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Books, film, music, ideas. Catholic life in the wider conversation.
Music: Epic Beethoven in a Borders village church
when you live in london, with the convenience of sophisticated halls and world-class concerts on tap, it’s maybe perverse to take successive...
Michael White
Theatre: A dreamworld of Jews, Mormons and angels
angels in america , tony kushner’s award-winning epic at national theatre, describes the impact of aids on the gay community in san francisc...
Robert Tanitch
Briefly noted
world without end by thomas keating ocso (bloomsbury, £10.99) . the author, an american trappist and well-known exponent of contemplative pr...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Omnium Gatherum
dom prosper guéranger, in the liturgical year, looks at the discourse of peter at the pentecost event. the multitudes had gathered for the j...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Word this week
solemnity of pentecost acts 2:1-11; 1 cor 12:3-7; jn 20:19-23 (year a) pentecost comes this year at a time when our nation is still grieving...
Bishop David McGough
Lectio Divina
gift of the holy spirit pentecost sunday: john 20:19-23 19 it was late that sunday evening, and the disciples were gathered together behind ...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week: Charles Lwanga (June 3)
a bugandan convert in 1879, the white fathers missionary order arrived in buganda, present-day uganda, and began to preach the gospel. they ...
Staff Reporter
PICTURES: 'Stunning' frescos revealed in Roman catacombs
Some of the frescos are more than 1,600 years old
Catholic News Service
To defeat Islamists, our governments must enter the battle of ideas
It's time they got off the fence
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Trump seems content with traditional US foreign policy. More's the pity
From Riyadh to Rome, Trump's first trip has shown he's no foreign policy maverick
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Don’t use embryos for research, says Pope
pope francis has urged scientists not to take part in a “throwaway culture” by destroying human embryos in the search for a cure for hunting...
Staff writers
The debate that just won’t die
in his memoir the church and i , the catholic apologist frank sheed recalled his part in an unusual conversion story. a murderer on death ro...
Dan Hitchens
From altar server to Hollywood actor
michael fassbender is remembering his days as an altar boy at prince of peace church in fossa, near killarney. “i was head altar boy, actual...
Gabrielle Donnelly
A lonely alcoholic’s poetic quest for God
the victorian poet gerard manley hopkins alienated himself from practically all of his english contacts – including his family – by his deci...
Sam Hickford
Television: Lost girls sacrificed to liberal ideology
watching three girls (bbc one, tuesdays, 9pm), i kept thinking: “this is how people are.” not all people, thank god. but in a part of rochda...
Tim Stanley
Music: Where the Brighton Festival went wrong
the brighton festival was once a go-to place for classical music. now it’s not, having succumbed to populism and a policy of handing over ar...
Michael White
Fine art: Flights of fancy on the Grand Canal
canaletto and the art of venice queen’s gallery, london, until nov 12 there’s a feast of canaletto just around the corner from buckingham pa...
David V Barrett
Can artists thrive in the internet age?
move fast and break things by jonathan taplin, macmillan, £18.99 the problem with most books on culture, creativity and media trends is that...
Matt Thorne
Word this week
the ascension of the lord acts 1:1-11; eph 1:17-23; mt 28:16-20 (year a) the ascension of the lord, as described in the scriptures, marks an...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0492
cryptic across 1 biblical character’s record is preserved in joshua, abridged (6) 5 reds, the first to open with female pitcher (4) 8 not av...
Alun Evans
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