Culture

New testimony from Jesuit priests and Hitchcock's family suggests that the director's lifelong relationship with the Catholic Church was more enduring than many biographers have claimed

Tony Lee Moral

What if our fascination with decline reveals not the collapse of civilisation, but a crisis of historical imagination?

Lola Salem

As debates over wealth dominate public discourse, Chesterton’s account of civilisational decline points towards a different diagnosis and a different remedy

Ruadhan Jones

Fr Armand de Malleray’s ‘Painting Reality’ invites readers to look beyond aesthetics and history to recover the theological meaning embedded within sacred art

Jan C. Bentz

The new Michael Jackson biopic invites reflection on the way public admiration can rapidly turn into collective condemnation, echoing themes familiar from the Passion narrative

Isabel Gibbens

A parish reading group at the Oxford Oratory has spent eight years exploring Catholic literature, history and theology while fostering conversation, friendship and faith

Robin Aitken

Gabriel Wilson OSB’s account of beekeeping combines practical knowledge, monastic insight and a profound attentiveness to the natural world

Melanie McDonagh

Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations contain profound moral insights that often resonate with Christian teaching, yet Stoicism ultimately cannot answer the deepest questions about suffering, grace and eternal hope

Clement Harrold

The collapse of criticism as a rigorous practice has left contemporary culture increasingly unable to recognise or cultivate excellence

Lola Salem

The president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology rejected accusations of heresy after criticism from priests and laity

Thomas Colsy