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Pesellino's work is spectacular: alas, we shall never know what else might have been

francesco di stefano, known as pesellino, first established his reputation and that of his workshop in florence through small-scale devotion...

Mixed reactions to Vatican 'Trial of the Century': will anyone actually go to jail?

rome – after a staggering total of 30 months, 85 hearings stretching over some 600 courtroom hours, 69 witnesses and almost 150,000 pages of...

The poetry of Christmas trees

nick ripatrazone explores seasonal lines by poets elizabeth bishop,  wb yeats, james merrill and denise levertov. in one of her most fa...

Nick Ripatrazone

Catholics must not be afraid to speak out against the Pill

as of next month women will be able to get the contraceptive pill for free from pharmacies in england without a gp’s approval. the heal...

Portia Berry-Kilby

Interview: soon-to-be-Catholic Tammy Peterson on marriage, religion and the power of femininity

tammy peterson is becoming a catholic.  she will be received into the church at easter.  any school rebranding their house system ...

Katherine Bennett

N. Irish Catholic schools fight back as pressure mounts to adopt secular ideologies

just as the scottish bishops’ conference has robustly engaged the department of education in scotland on the removal of protections for cath...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

Freedom wins as Finnish politician found 'not guilty' of hate speech for Bible tweet

it is a worrying fact that the right of catholics, and indeed all christians, to manifest their beliefs can’t be taken for granted these day...

Prof Andrew Tettenborn

What we can learn from Aaron Rosen's What Would Jesus See

seeing as jesus sees. for those of a certain age, it would be easy to misread the title of aaron rosen’s new book as “what would jesus do?” ...

Nick Ripatrazone

A screenplay about the life of Fr John Gerard: a positively countercultural project

mark batey introduces his screenplay about the life of fr john gerard. cancel culture, thought police, identity politics. these may sound li...

Poirot, but not as we know him: A Haunting in Venice, reviewed by Julia Hamilton

christie as a horror movie doesn’t work, says julia hamilton. a haunting in venice is the third in a trilogy of films produced and acted in ...