Europe

O brother, where art thou?

i like abel ferrara. this is a pedestrian way to start a review, but given how much the bronx-born director divides opinion, it is germane t...

The Paraclete

it will not be until the last sunday in june that we return to green vestments and our regular cycle of readings from st luke’s gospel. the ...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Conservative but not clericalist

any body that can muster 500 priests and deacons is a force to be reckoned with, and the confraternity of catholic clergy, which does just t...

Gertrude Clarke

Lifting the lid on the Jesuits

being a jesuit in renaissance italy camilla russell harvard university press, £39.95, 256 pages what makes this book so impressive is the qu...

Fr Michael Holman SJ

New South Wales becomes final Australian state to legalise euthanasia

new south wales has become the sixth and final australian state to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide. its legislation forces health c...

Roe v Wade leak was an act of shameless intimidation

well, we knew it would get ugly but the left in america have gone full mafia tactics with the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion from t...

A glimpse of heaven at Sir John Soane's Museum

architectural drawings: hidden masterpieces from sir john soane’s museum by dr frances sands batsford press, £35, 159 pages "we’ll make heav...

Serenhedd James

The restoration of two Bentley churches

in the 19th century, the “potteries” in notting dale, west london, were an area of considerable degradation, with many poor irish catholic i...

Saving children’s lives

we won, we won, we won, repeated shelina begum in a near state of shock, and blinking back tears as mr justice macdonald announced that her ...

Chaos or Christianity

it was evelyn waugh, writing in a british newspaper, who warned his contemporaries how stark the choice was that faced them. ninety years la...