Culture

Chaos or Christianity

it was evelyn waugh, writing in a british newspaper, who warned his contemporaries how stark the choice was that faced them. ninety years la...

Fighting for faith

mark wahlberg’s early-morning routine would shame the divine office of a medieval cistercian monk. he gets up at 2:30am and then spends 15-2...

Pivot to summer

so much of the life of any garden depends on what happens in the sky above it and spring is when it matters most. the manner in which the at...

Wood engravings revisited

pen worn, hand weary and eye dimmed from transcribing text after text for the continental book market, the adoption of the new process of bo...

Seeing and believing

from cinema’s earliest days, filmmakers have been attracted to the subject of the bible. the scriptures appealed for a variety of reasons. t...

Symbolic stance

the church of england’s consistory courts are not normally at the centre of the culture war. these bodies – there is one in every anglican d...

Easter with Saint John

in eastertide, we take a break every year from reading our usual gospel – in this year luke – and turn to the gospel of st john. scholars of...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Faithful unto death

in the mid-1950s, the composer francis poulenc was commissioned to write a new opera. his choice of story – the martyrdom of a group of carm...

Promotion for Bishop of Plymouth as Pope appoints him to two Welsh dioceses

the pope has appointed bishop mark o’toole as archbishop-elect of cardiff and bishop-elect of menevia. a londoner, bishop o’toole has been b...

Internal bleeding from severe shoulder injury caused death of Jesus Christ, says doctor-turned-priest

jesus died from a heart attack brought on by fatal internal bleeding from a ruptured artery in his shoulder, a doctor-turned-priest has said...