Catholic Church

Why infiltration is doomed to fail

the revelation that hillary clinton’s campaign staff sought to pressure the catholic church to liberalise its teachings has provoked underst...

Jonathan Luxmoore

Inside the Democrats’ Trojan Horse

you wouldn’t expect hillary clinton’s staff and senior supporters to think very highly of conservative catholics. but reading their own word...

The Church tilts south

the historic election of the first non-european jesuit superior-general points to two great trends in the church. first, the new focus on la...

The biblical genius of Bob Dylan

i hope bob dylan winning the nobel prize for literature will help me to persuade our children that he’s worth listening to. at the moment, w...

The BBC can change on abortion

reading quentin de la bédoyère’s manual on “how to win an argument about abortion” in these pages last month took me back to a time when i t...

Salvation in five acts

this autumn i am giving presentations to all the high school teachers, staff and administrators in the archdiocese of los angeles. these tal...

Bishop Robert Barron

Mary Kenny: Mercy in the killing fields

some years ago, an old german soldier, henry metelmann, told me the story of how he had killed his fatally wounded comrade on the russian fr...

Film: Clichéd and ludicrous - it must be a Dan Brown thriller

inferno  (12a, 121 mins,  ★ ) can a third dan brown thriller starring tom hanks as symbology professor robert langdon, once again ...

David V Barrett

What comes after the ‘reform of the reform’?

liturgy in the twenty-first century edited by alcuin reid, oremus, £16.99 ‘the reform of the reform” – in other contexts the phrase could ha...

The British Isles seen through X-ray specs

the making of the british landscape by nicholas crane, weidenfeld and nicolson, £20 for the first time in over a century, visitors can now s...