Education

A bittersweet correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and his gardener friend

nick ripatrazone looks at letters around a garden by rainer maria rilke, written to his close friend antoinette, a gardener, a century ago. ...

Nick Ripatrazone

‘Little Englishmen’ in Portugal: a new book about the English College at Lisbon

the english college at lisbon 1622-1972 , by simon johnson gracewing, £25, 272 pages the relationship between britain and portugal is often ...

Deacon Stephen Morgan

Across the Thames: a new book about Southwark but not much about its Catholics

liberty over london bridge: a history of the people of southwark by margaret willes yale university press, £20, 304 pages the dead are inter...

The curse of constant communication: Why can’t we just interact in person?

at about midnight, after a sleepless two hours of lying in bed listening to my baby coughing in his sleep over the monitor, i decided it was...

Olenka Hamilton

Recent discoveries highlight important role indigenous music played in Jesuits’ famous missionary zeal

the jesuits are renowned as hardened missionaries, establishing substantial missions in the likes of south america and the far east during p...

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a terrible battle

tolerance is frequently assumed to be a virtue of the young. in the mass media, age is associated with crabbiness and narrowing of outlook, ...

Nevill Holt Festival: how a Catholic Recusant house has become a new Glyndebourne of the Midlands

instead of sitting in flapping tents in muddy fields, english country houses have become the preferred stage set for many new history and li...

Looking to the example of St Joseph – The purpose of work is not to work

in an address to the christian association of catholic workers in may 1955, pope pius xii established the feast of st joseph the worker, to ...

Another Californian diocese files for bankruptcy due to volume of abuse lawsuits

a sixth california diocese has filed for bankruptcy in the wake of special legislation that eliminated the statute of limitations in cases r...

A surfeit of minor keys this Easter

michael white enjoys two requiems, a stabat mater and two outstanding premieres . musically, the journey through holy week to easter is a sl...