Culture

Review: 'Heaven on Earth' by Emma J Wells

when guests came to visit me during my noviciate at blackfriars in cambridge, a trip to ely cathedral was a failsafe and inexpensive trip ou...

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Catholic Good Schools Guide 2022: Top five prep schools

all hallows east cranmore, somerset headmaster: trevor richards takes: girls and boys, aged 3-13 home to 400 pupils, all hallows has good ac...

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Catholic Good Schools Guide 2022: A-Z of Independent schools

alton school hampshire headmaster: karl guest takes: boys and girls, aged 1-18 alton school is a day school in an old manor house on a ...

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Catholic Good Schools Guide 2022: Top ten senior schools

downside school somerset headmaster: andrew hobbs takes: girls and boys, aged 13-18 approximately three-quarters of the pupils at downside a...

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Gadfly and Scourge: On Alice Thomas Ellis

almost two decades after her death in 2005, alice thomas ellis’s novels and non-fiction works are available in paperback from bloomsbury aca...

When humanists fall out with each other

last summer, i was amused to see that organised atheism was facing the possibility of a serious schism. perhaps it wasn’t so very surprising...

Finding grace in the presence of evil

in the united states the overruling of roe v wade, which returned regulation of abortion access to each of the 50 states, has elicited stron...

Celebrating duty and service

it was an extraordinary 10 days of national mourning to mark the death of hrh queen elizabeth ii, not only for the pomp and ceremony but for...

A Queen de jure

sixty nine years after her late majesty came to westminster abbey to be anointed, crowned and enthroned her mortal remains were taken to the...

Pope Francis kowtows to China as Cardinal Zen trial begins

just when cardinal zen needed the pope, there was silence, with the pontiff shamed by german bishop the trial of cardinal joseph zen - a lon...

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