Education

Playing to the crowd

hogarth: life in progress by jacqueline riding profile books, £30, 534 pages william hogarth (1697-1764) has a good claim to being the first...
Fram Dinshaw

Breaking the habit

mainstream understanding of wayward nuns is often drawn from the sound of music (1965). maria von trapp’s inability to stick to the script w...
Arabella Byrne

You can't take a child from his parents, even if you think you're saving his soul

there is an error catholics and other christians can commit, and have committed, despite the church's own historic warning against it. that ...
RobertPGeorge

The patron saint of footballers ... is an Italian

ten years ago, reporting that the vatican had named st luigi scrosoppi as the patron saint of footballers, the catholic herald 's editors no...
FromtheArchives

C. S. Lewis: At first sight a disappointment

the poet elizabeth jennings reviews a book of reminiscences about c. s. lewis, whom she heard lecture when a student at st anne's college. t...
FromtheArchives

Oxford Dreams

“i am beginning to take active steps to carry out my oxford dreams,” the dominican fr raphael moss confided to his diary on 26 june 1904. hi...
Rev Dr Richard Finn

Rediscovering Ronnie

a few years ago i returned from the bodleian to find a small parcel in my college pigeon hole, placed there by the senior tutor. it containe...
Serenhedd James

Mysteries of the hidden oratory

very few secret catholic chapels from the 16th century have been identified in england – fewer, indeed, than the “priest holes’”(properly ca...
Francis Young and Brigitte Webster

‘Dominicans value the intellectual life’

when i was a novice, our novice master told us that, while god has promised that the church will endure until the end of time, no such promi...
Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth

The Power and the Gory

it is now 50 years since the 1971 publication of william peter blatty’s bestselling novel the exorcist , inspired by a 1949 case of demonic ...
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