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The freedom to be unfashionable

jacob rees-mogg put the matter in a balanced – if somewhat orotund – way: he did not consider that a burka added to any woman’s “pulchritude...

Comments of the week

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The Catholic Herald

Rock stars who can’t leave the faith behind

"pope francis is a true rock star.” who says? an actual rock star. sting, formerly of the police, attended a general audience recently and w...

Feted by his fans, abused by racists

making oscar wilde by michèle mendelssohn, oup, 360pp, £20 in january 1882, oscar wilde toured america with a trunkful of lace-trimmed velve...

The free-spirited woman who found grace

dorothy day: an introduction by terence c wright, ignatius, 162pp, £12 the author, an academic at the st john vianney theological seminary i...

Charlie Hegarty

The big story of the past seven days

✣ ✣ argentina’s senate rejects abortion on demand what happened? the argentine senate rejected a bill legalising abortion on demand for the ...

The new destitution

co-written with andrew dorsey last month, as the school holidays began, children and teachers breathed a sigh of relief. but at one school i...

Damian Thompson: The thin end of the wedge

a friend of mine texted me last week to say that she’d found a nice church round the corner from her office and had just “popped in for a lu...

Damian Thompson

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/08/18

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