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the question came in a deceptively simple guise: “what is your favourite scriptural text?” normally the answer would be: “the one i am worki...

Fr Nicholas King SJ

we are back to year a in the lectionary, which means that for most of the year we shall be reading from st matthew’s gospel on sundays. the ...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

sometimes christianity creeps into opera in unwelcome ways. a notorious example is benjamin britten’s rape of lucretia which tells the ancie...

Michael White

roald dahl: teller of the unexpected matthew dennison head of zeus, £20, 264 pages perhaps my favourite roald dahl story – and one not, alas...

Alexander Larman

the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call him emmanuel, a name which means ‘god is with us’.  in the final we...

Fr Mark Vickers

the whole netflix watching world has been talking about harry and meghan this week.  the fact that their documentary, entitled - y...

Katherine Bennett

monsignor michael nazir-ali, the former anglican bishop of rochester who became a catholic in 2021, joins dr gavin ashenden for this 29th ep...

Gavin Ashenden

after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity , from the early 1480s, has returned to public display in the...

Hugh Kerr

“may the lord be in your heart and help you to confess your sins with true sorrow.” what prevents us from doing that? we won’t confess our s...

Fr Mark Vickers

antonia fraser someone once said, channelling shakespeare’s hamlet: “there’s nothing good nor bad, but christmas makes it worse.” i can only...

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