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Fine art: The beast lurking among Picasso’s beauties
the picasso: minotaurs and matadors exhibition at the gagosian (london w1, until august 25) is a burdensome proposal. to face a picasso is a...
Miguel Cullen
Music: Radical opera at a surreal dinner party
we’ve all known dinner parties that went on too long, but rarely with the consequences of the one in thomas adès’s new opera, the exterminat...
Michael White
Film: Love, lies and trauma in the aftermath of war
it seems only yesterday that we were commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of world war i. three years on, and it is now the terrible ...
Mark Le Fanu
‘Catholic’ must be more than just a brand name
catholic social thought edited by david o’brien and thomas shannon, orbis, £30 there are 687 pages in this collection of church documents, r...
Brandon McGinley
The timeless poetry of a bedridden genius
david jones: engraver, soldier, painter, poet by thomas dilworth, jonathan cape, £25 david jones is the author of two of the greatest modern...
Gerald Russello
Prize crossword 0490
cryptic across 1 soldier to head up to region east of the r jordan (6) 4 amun’s place is almost unbeatable (6) 9 short east india man reache...
Alun Evans
Despair as weakness rather than sin
classically, both in the world and in our churches, we have seen despair as the ultimate unforgivable sin. the simple notion was that neithe...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The timeless poetry of a bedridden genius
David Jones' In Parenthesis is "one of the greatest aesthetic and existential achievements of 20th century literature" says Thomas Dilworth
Gerald Russello
We're in danger of overlooking the most important part of Fatima
The warnings of Our Lady proved prophetic in 1917. They continue to resonate today
Stephen Bullivant
Christians should not be expected to live according to Islamic law
The jailing of the governor of Jakarta is deeply unjust and absurd
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
US bishops sign pledge to end death penalty
'The death penalty represents a failure of our society to fulfil the demands of human dignity,' the Catholic Mobilizing Network said
Catholic News Service
Vatican hosts cosmology conference to dispel faith-science conflict
The conference will also celebrate the scientific legacy of Msgr George Lemaitre, one of the fathers of the 'Big Bang theory'
Catholic News Service
St Augustine might have had doubts about the Benedict Option
A retreat - even a ‘strategic retreat’ - from the world feels more Orthodox than Catholic
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
News in brief
pope appeals for peace amid venezuela unrest pope francis has urged both of venezuela’s main political parties to ensure that “every further...
Staff writers
Stephen Daisley: The moral agony of the lifelong Labour voter
it’s the dilemma facing millions of moderate labour voters: can they in good conscience support their party this time around without endorsi...
Stephen Daisley
Nick Hallett: My journey from atheism to Catholicism
it seemed obvious, really. how could i ever have been so foolish as not to believe in god? what a small, miserable universe i inhabited befo...
Nick Hallett
Film: A washed-up detective in hot pursuit of laughs
growing up an avid telly addict in the 1980s was good fun. i was a full-on devotee of the a-team and thought knight rider was just about the...
Will Gore
Music: Manchester gains a major cultural asset
a new organ has just been unveiled in manchester’s anglican cathedral. it has a fascinating hidden feature – spiritual texts cut deep into t...
Michael White
Theatre: Not even Jude Law can fill a bare stage
ivo van hove, artistic director of tonnelgroep amsterdam, has taken up residency at the barbican. he follows his highly praised productions ...
Robert Tanitch
The secular case against pornography
the porn myth by matt fradd, ignatius, £14 this book, written by a christian author and published by a religious publisher, takes a strictly...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
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