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greek myths: a new retelling charlotte higgins jonathan cape, £20, 336 pages ________ in ancient greek, mythos simply meant a traditional st...

Harry Mount

rod dreher came to my home in normandy this summer in part to talk about the writing of his coming book.  we talked intensely long into...

Gavin Ashenden

the vatican press conference to introduce  dignitas infinita  was that rare thing in the history of vatican press conferences – it...

Delia Buckley Gallagher

oliver cromwell: commander in chief ronald hutton yale university press, 480 pages, £25 do we need another biography of oliver cromwell? mor...

John Morrill

professor john keown dcl (oxford) is a senior research scholar in the kennedy institute of ethics at georgetown university. he formerly taug...

Anthony McCarthy

the coronation events have been, as far as the king is concerned, very much a joint affair. queen camilla was centre stage throughout. durin...

Melanie McDonagh

given the sacramental primacy of the altar in the doctrinal and theological economy of the catholic church, altarpieces have necessarily dem...

Robert Beddard

in the more than a decade since avatar became the highest-grossing film of all time – raking in $2.9 billion at the box office – it fell int...

Ferdie Rous

michael de la bedoyere was the editor of  the catholic herald and a friend both of g. k. chesterton's and his biographer maisie ward. h...

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president joe biden, the 82-year-old outgoing president of the united states, recently commuted most federal death sentences. the reason for...

Thomas Edwards