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Science and faith: Is Ian Brady in hell?

in may this year an unrepentant ian brady, the moors murderer, died. terry kilbride, the brother of a victim, hoped that brady would “rot in...
Quentin de la Bedoyere

Brexit’s Catholic Mr Fixit

two days before britain voted to leave the european union, shanker singham wrote an article arguing in favour of remain. yet today he is bus...
Luke Coppen

Comments of the week

on married priests, we should look east sir – i have read with interest fr ray blake’s blog post (see news focus, page 16) about lonely and ...
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A bird was never just a bird to David Jones

‘god save thee, ancient mariner! from the fiends, that plague thee thus!— why look’st thou so?’—with my cross-bow i shot the albatross. what...
Laura Freeman

A rare glimpse of Raphael’s path to perfection

raphael: the drawings , a wonderful exhibition at the ashmolean museum, oxford (until september 3), is the first opportunity in britain to s...
David Scrase

Music: Harry Potter set fails to rescue Debussy

for anyone who thinks of opera as a semaphore activity with sweeping gestures, heaving chests and high anxiety, debussy’s pelléas et mélisan...
Michael White

The spymaster who crushed British fascism

m: maxwell knight by henry hemming, preface, £20 the epigraph to this fascinating book is the extraordinary statement of em forster in two c...
Jack Carrigan

Saint of the week: Kateri Tekakwitha (July 14)

born a mohawk kateri tekakwitha, the first native american to be canonised, lived a heroic life on the borders between the church and a thor...
Staff Reporter

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, july 16: 15th sunday in ordinary time is 55:10-11; ps 65; rom 8:18-23; mt 13:1-23 monday, july ...
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Pictures of the week

1 new swedish cardinal anders arborelius visits christ the king, bramley, in the diocese of leeds, for his friend fr paul redmond’s ruby ann...
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