Europe

REVIEW – Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief, by Ronald Hutton

oliver cromwell: commander in chief ronald hutton yale university press, 480 pages, £25 do we need another biography of oliver cromwell? mor...

Prof John Keown: The assisted suicide Bill is incoherent, unworkable and dangerous

professor john keown dcl (oxford) is a senior research scholar in the kennedy institute of ethics at georgetown university. he formerly taug...

Anthony McCarthy

France’s clash between church bell ringing and stroppy 'rural newcomers'

the french government aims to pass a law that could help protect the ringing of church bells across the country’s rural regions that are the...

No escape from the wind

the maiden of all our desires, a new historical novel by peter manseau, begins with a thrashing storm that “would become the stuff of bards’...

Nick Ripatrazone

Squabbling over the Old Rite

it’s been a while since the holy father dropped his hand grenade, the motu proprio traditionis custodes . as readers will know, this documen...

Why not an American pope?

for years, the consensus was that an american pope would never fly. since the us overtook the british empire as the world’s pre-eminent poli...

The Catholic Herald

Pope Francis says he will take coronavirus vaccine, says vaccination "ethical option" for all

- catholic herald, rome - pope francis told italy's tg5 he would take the coronavirus vaccine as soon as it becomes available at the vatican...

Which of Jesus's two widows should we imitate?

"the jar of meal was not spent nor the jug of oil emptied, just as the lord had foretold through elijah" (1 kings 17:16) last sunday we were...

Fr David Howell

Fire and blood at Pentecost

pentecost this year has been both bitter and sweet. it is always sweet. the promise of the holy spirit is the fuel of our love and our exper...

Pole stars hit the right note

it sometimes seems like poland has its own, peculiarly national, hotline to god. why this should be, beyond the fact that it produces the oc...