Culture

it is surprising how often lust intervenes in simple human situations, wreaking disaster – and that includes in history. for example, the ma...

Antonia Fraser

a table full of love skye mcalpine bloomsbury, £25, 319 pages at first glance, i thought that skye mcalpine’s a table full of love might be ...

Alicia Godfrey

directed by chilean filmmaker sebastián lelio, the wonder is a religious mystery which begins with a disembodied voice telling the audience:...

Andrew Petiprin

the wren is an interesting fellow and he is sufficient in number to ensure that if you keep your eyes peeled in your garden or local park yo...

charlie-hart

yaoundé, cameroon – a parish priest in nigeria has been arrested over the killing of a boy on new year’s eve night. father joseph enyinaya o...

Ngala Chimton / Crux

https://audioboom.com/posts/8224933-the-creative-generosity-of-pope-benedict-xvi in the first merely catholic podcast for 2023, dr gavin ash...

The Catholic Herald

dear reader, i come to you today as a white, irish, heterosexual, middle-aged woman with protruding teeth, greying hair, a minus 7 prescript...

Katherine Bennett

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

Harry Mount

ridley scott’s latest historical blockbuster napoleon whizzes through the emperor’s action-packed life, says ferdie rous. in this highly epi...

Ferdie Rous

i judge no one: a political life of jesus david lloyd dusenbury hurst and co, £25, 312 pages the “political jesus” of 1970s liberation theol...

Alexander Faludy