Europe

The Chemist of Catania, by Alexander Lucie-Smith

the chemist of catania alexander lucie-smith self-published, £5, 235 pages not since ann radcliffe has a british author published a more som...
Georgia L. Gilholy

By stacking the odds in his favour, does Pope Francis risk splitting the vote at the next conclave?

almost 300 years ago, a minor french playwright by the cumbersome name of léonor-jean-christine soulas d’allainval – he mockingly referred t...
John Allen

Oppenheimer, reviewed by Julia Hamilton

the film’s events are magnetically clustered around los alamos, finds julia hamilton. if you thought that christopher nolan’s last film, dun...
Julia Hamilton

Joseph Roth: Riddles and reinvention

endless flight: the life of joseph roth keiron pim granta, £25, 544 pages it is easiest to imagine joseph roth – the most elegaic writer of ...
John Ritzema

Angel voices, ever singing: Aquinas would have been fascinated by experiments with photons

in the catholic church there are many reminders of the reality of angels: at the beginning of mass we ask the angels to pray for us; we cry ...
Fr Robert Verrill OP

Positive parallels between the Commonwealth and the Church

positive parallels between the commonwealth and the church. how do you hold together a large multinational association of highly diverse peo...
Niall Gooch

The rampant anti-Catholicism of the French Left

on the morning of 8 june this year, henri d’anselme heard a commotion in an annecy playground. the 24-year-old frenchman then saw something ...
Gavin Mortimer

Catholic Multi-Academy Trusts run by CEOs are putting our schools in peril

just before covid, the little old lady who lived next door to us sold her 3-bedroom house to a bulgarian couple who had plans to turn it int...
Katherine Bennett

Portugal is facing the new world once again

with its sixth cardinal on the way and a papal visit to lisbon  last month, a new special relationship between portugal  and the v...
William Cash

Mediterranean mission

the holy father is nothing if not peripatetic. three weeks after the papal visit to mongolia, he faces a very different challenge with a vis...
The Catholic Herald