Catholic Church

listening to the commentariat reacting to the infant-formula shortage in america earlier this month, it struck me just how unbearably compli...

Olenka Hamilton

confession (2022) should work. it has a reasonable director, david beton (the hatton garden job), and a decent cast: colm meaney and stephen...

Arabella Byrne

the reformation of the 16th century embraced scotland with even greater ferocity than it did england, although somewhat later in time. james...

John Martin Robinson and Michael Hodges

hoax: the popish plot that never was by victor stater yale, £20, 336 pages titus oates was a flat-faced con man with no credit or standing i...

Jessie Childs

the bride: an illustrated history of palestine 1850-1948 by roger hardy anthony eyre, £15, 320 pages this account of a momentous century in ...

Piers Brendon

the american writer jack kerouac, whose centenary fell this year, was adamant about the catholic inspiration of his work, which he repeatedl...

Benjamin Ivry

ritual: how seemingly senseless acts make life worth living is the latest ethnographic offering of dimitris xygalatas, an anthropologist and...

Ben Stephens

when it comes to pr disasters, the church’s handling of the galileo affair is right up there. to the modern mind, the galileo affair is the ...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

it is common knowledge that our island’s deep-rooted relationship with catholicism spans hundreds of years, stretching all the way back to t...

Kemi Badenoch MP

ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum, habitare fratres in unum – psalm 133 as i reflect on my experience of lockdown as a new priest appointed t...

Fr Liam Carpenter