Europe

Pope to Jesuits of La Civiltà Cattolica: Row well!

pope francis has invited the journalists of la civiltà cattolica to “row with passion and determination in the barque of peter, like good je...

Sometimes You'll Get Conned

her name was angel, a name that made me think of that verse about entertaining angels. she appeared in the local buy nothing group last nove...

Roncesvalles: The Crossroads of History and Legend

enveloped in the silence of the deep, green valley on the spanish side of the pyrenees mountains where it nestles, the royal collegiate chur...

Curtis Williams

New push for euthanasia could be coming in UK parliament

health secretary matt hancock moves to renew assisted dying debate by georgia gilholy health and social care secretary matt hancock is repor...

Georgia L. Gilholy

Open letter demands Irish government commit to not banning public worship

an open letter circulating among people of faith in ireland demands that the government commit to “never again impose a blanket ban on publi...

Centesimus Annus After 30 Years

chinese workers walk down a dirt access road from one of beijing's major air polluters, the capital iron and steel factory, 16 february 2001...

Church to canonise Charles de Foucauld, six others

pope francis cleared the way for the canonization of blessed charles de foucauld and six others at an ordinary public consistory held at the...

Stranger than fiction

the adventures of miss barbara pym by paula byrne £25, 704pp, william collins ________ towards the end of paula byrne’s biography of the nov...

Last of the Antiquarian Country Parsons

four of us assembled at sotheby’s on a chilly february day in 2000 to drive up to marston, a few miles north of grantham, off the a1, to att...

Trial for our times

the innocence of pontius pilate: how the roman trial of jesus shaped history david lloyd dusenbury c hurst & co, £25, 272 pages ________...

Sylvana Tomaselli