Culture

Music has become increasingly passive in modern life, but the folk tradition offers Catholics a way to recover shared culture and fellowship through singing together

David Hahn

Joseph Kelly's 'Long Reign of Silence' argues that monasteries shaped Britain's learning, government and culture – and that their destruction transformed the nation

Jan C. Bentz

Returning to one of its most poignant storylines, the final season of Outlander offers an unusually sincere reflection on love, grief, family and faith

Isobel Yuill

Netflix’s Unchosen explores the fear, secrecy and hidden brokenness that can flourish inside tightly controlled communities and society writ large

Daniel Turner

Pentecost is not a feast of polite reflection but of holy disruption, and sacred music should recover something of that unsettling power

Simon Johnson

The St Birinus Festival at Dorchester Abbey seeks to restore sacred music to the liturgical setting for which it was composed

Dominic Bevan

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a glamorous Manhattan couple whose wedding preparations spiral into psychological chaos after one shocking confession

Julia Hamilton

In the setting of a Baroque palace built on rivalry, a new exhibition traces Bernini’s rise under Urban VIII, though not without notable omissions

Daniel Beurthe

The elongated figures of El Greco’s Pentecost reflect a deeply Christian vision of the body transformed not by cosmetics or discipline, but by the life of the Spirit

Fr Gavan Jennings

Female pop stars are increasingly treated as objects of devotion, revealing a culture searching for meaning, identity and motherhood elsewhere

Isabel Gibbens