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what happened cardinal george pell will attempt to make a final appeal against his conviction for child abuse, after the victoria supreme co...

Staff writers

on august 15, the solemnity of the assumption, 80,000 people gathered at the shrine of our lady of la vang in vietnam. you might have expect...

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imagine this: a man entirely careless of all moral and spiritual affairs lives his life in utter selfishness, with pleasure his only pursuit...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

cw leadbeater (1854-1934) was a most remarkable – not to say bizarre – man. of middle-class background, he was ordained an anglican clergyma...

Charles Coulombe

cryptic across 7 sanctimonious and dead, this roman procurator (6) 8 one that crashed into the sea is coming from iran initially – american ...

Alun Evans

i will not describe cardinal gerhard müller, formerly prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, as a “conservative” cardina...

Francis Phillips

christina rossetti by emma mason oup, 240pp, £30/$39.95 devotional victorian poets understood the particularities of nature as manifestation...

Rebekah Lamb

melancholy lingers about much of gerald finzi’s oeuvre. the sadness of his early life contributed, as did his later ill health. finzi’s musi...

Francis O’Gorman

the composer gerald finzi (1901-56) was shy, modest and sensitive. descended on his father’s side from italian jews, the finzis were otherwi...

Peter Davison

we need to get our own house in order sir – matthew schmitz (cover story, august 9) asks how it is that when our churches are desecrated, th...

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