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The Wonder (2022), directed by Sebastián Lelio

directed by chilean filmmaker sebastián lelio, the wonder is a religious mystery which begins with a disembodied voice telling the audience:...
Andrew Petiprin

The Knights Hospitaller still take up arms in the 21st century: getting to grips with medieval combat in Normandy

the military order of st john of jerusalem, of rhodes and of malta (the knights hospitaller) is known in modern catholic circles today less ...
Crispin Culbertson

A new slant on timeless tales

greek myths: a new retelling charlotte higgins jonathan cape, £20, 336 pages ________ in ancient greek, mythos simply meant a traditional st...
Harry Mount

The Latin Mass Society's annual pilgrimage to Walsingham gets bigger every year

as i write this, i am still steeped in the elation and buzz of a typically strong afterglow. i have gloria, laus et honor , te deum laudamus...
Tom Colsy

French dressing: Napoleon is too fast

ridley scott’s latest historical blockbuster napoleon whizzes through the emperor’s action-packed life, says ferdie rous. in this highly epi...
Ferdie Rous

On Pilgrimage With: Buchi Akpati

where would you go?  saint peter’s basilica in rome.  would you make any special stops?  first, to the scavi to venerate the ...
The Catholic Herald

Here's to St Bernard of Clairvaux: celebrating the Cistercians and their Chardonnay

there can be few men who have had a larger impact on civilisation with almost no fanfare than the great st bernard of clairvaux: a doctor of...
Brian Scarffe

View from the (journalistic) pew in Rome: Cardinal ‘Tucho’ Fernandez opens up on his doctrinal declarations

the vatican press conference to introduce  dignitas infinita  was that rare thing in the history of vatican press conferences – it...
Delia Buckley Gallagher

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...
John Morrill

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