Europe

Dutch legalise euthanasia for primary school-age children

euthanasia is to be extended to primary school-age children in the netherlands, the dutch government has announced. health minister ernst ku...

Maastricht: Much more than we might think

mention the name maastricht to anyone on the british side of the atlantic and you risk setting off the brexit arguments all over again – the...

Pope appoints Spanish archbishop as Nuncio to Great Britain

pope francis has appointed a spanish archbishop who speaks six languages as the new apostolic nuncio to great britain. madrid-born archbisho...

Finding Family at the Foundling Museum

family is where you find it, as they say. it is a broad statement in the face of which the church’s social teachings have to hold their own ...

Saint Benedict In His Community, by Richard Newman

richard newman gracewing, £14.99, 244 pages this small book is a revision and extension of richard newman’s saint benedict in his time, whic...

Philippa Edwards OSB

The pope and primates

rethinking human relationship with the animal creation is not everyone’s cup of tea. there are nymphs in the vatican gardens. you will find ...

Felipe Fernandez Armesto

Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History, by Philip C Almond

mary magdalene: a cultural history philip c almond cambridge university press, £30, 386 pages ‘will the real mary magdalene please stand up?...

Alexander Faludy

A Guide to John Henry Newman: His Life and Thought, edited by Juan R Vélez

a guide to john henry newman: his life and thought juan r vélez (ed) catholic university of america press,$75, 448 pages just when you thoug...

Catherine Maybanks

After Impressionism: encountering my inner Philistine at London's National Gallery

le singe est dans l’arbre. the state visit to france was cancelled in the wake of protests at the very idea - quelle horreur - that the fren...

Serenhedd James

An American revisits London as a Catholic

in 1841, john henry newman wrote to a catholic acquaintance: “i do not fear that you will succeed among us; you will not supplant our church...

Andrew Petiprin