Culture

O brother, where art thou?

i like abel ferrara. this is a pedestrian way to start a review, but given how much the bronx-born director divides opinion, it is germane t...

Lifting the lid on the Jesuits

being a jesuit in renaissance italy camilla russell harvard university press, £39.95, 256 pages what makes this book so impressive is the qu...

Fr Michael Holman SJ

Why the overturning of Roe v Wade could reopen the abortion debate in Ireland

the first paragraph of the leaked draft of the supreme court decision to overturn  roe v wade  states:  abortion presents a p...

Dualta Roughneen

End of the road for St Benet's Hall?

st benet’s hall, oxford, looks set to close, writes serenhedd james the optimism with which i wrote about the future of st benet’s hall, oxf...

Serenhedd James

What really happened with the 'gay author' and John Fisher School

since simon james green, the homosexual author of ‘teen fiction’, was prevented from promoting his latest book at a catholic secondary schoo...

Roe v Wade leak was an act of shameless intimidation

well, we knew it would get ugly but the left in america have gone full mafia tactics with the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion from t...

Catholic children should be reading CS Lewis and GK Chesterton, not the blasphemous dross of Simon James Green

let’s keep this simple. if you think inviting an author of sexually explicit material that also has a sprinkling of blasphemy to a catholic ...

Britten's "Peter Grimes" is a tale for our times

covent garden’s powerful production of "peter g rimes" pulls no punches, writes michael white the seaside town of aldeburgh, in suffolk, has...

Family trauma across the decades

bad relations by cressida connolly viking, £14.99, 288 pages families don’t always bring out the best in people,” says one of the characters...

A glimpse of heaven at Sir John Soane's Museum

architectural drawings: hidden masterpieces from sir john soane’s museum by dr frances sands batsford press, £35, 159 pages "we’ll make heav...

Serenhedd James