Catholic Church

third sunday of the year neh 8:2-6 & 8-10; 1 cor 12:12-30; lk 1:1-4 & 4:14-21 (year c) ‘the law of the lord is perfect, it revives t...

Bishop David McGough

a sacred space is never empty by victoria smolkin princeton, 360pp, £35/$40 this book’s title comes from a russian proverb – as such it prov...

Jack Carrigan

shakespeare and the resistance by clare asquith, public affairs books, 256pp, £21.99/$28 not since picking up the friends of eddie coyle, th...

Simon Caldwell

the trial of the kaiser by william schabas oup, 412pp, £25/$35 "we’re going to hang jeff davis from a sour-apple tree,” sang yankee soldiers...

Allan Massie

in 1971, paul schrader, a film student at ucla, published a book called transcendental style in film: ozu, bresson, dreyer . although he was...

Deal Hudson

to the boys of covington catholic high school: many of you are still reeling from the trauma of the past few days. some of you are no doubt ...

Sohrab Ahmari

send bishop barron to washington sir – “few would deny that 2018 was an annus horribilis for the catholic church in the united states.” so w...

The Catholic Herald

on the morning of january 1, 2019, my family and i began a new life in the catholic church. at mass for the solemnity of mary, mother of god...

Andrew Petiprin

when none of my historian friends are looking, i like to draw parallels between pope francis and blessed pope pius ix. of course the pairing...

Matthew Schmitz

anthony burgess’s earthly powers was a great baggy monster of a novel which should perhaps have won the booker prize in 1980, but was beaten...

Allan Massie