Europe

Poetic Justice for Geoffrey Chaucer

the furore over the poet of the canterbury tales being culled from english literature courses taught at various universities, in an attempt ...
The Catholic Herald

The changing century

london and the 17th century: the making of the world's greatest city , by margarette lincoln £25, 384 pages, yale university press margarett...
Robert Gray

Spring Diary: Missing the ducks of Highgate

it is early february and the snows have finally come. in december i long for this seasonal variety, only to wish its swift departure barely ...
Andreas Campomar

Albrecht Dürer – a traveller's tale

when the national gallery announced their spring show dürer’s journeys: travels of a renaissance artist more than a year ago, they could not...
Laura Freeman

"You keep using that word..." - the dangers of sloganeering

it is interesting for historians to note that the fraternity called for by pope francis in fratelli tutti was an idea abhorred by his predec...
Piers Paul Read

Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq Positive for Coronavirus Days Before Papal Trip

significant other risks also attend the visit, long desired by pope francis and highly anticipated by the sorely tried people of the country...
Christopher Altieri

Charting my road to Rome

breathing the light scent of spring air admixed with incense, the priest’s words from exodus rolling like an elixir into our ears and the fe...
charlie-hart

Archbishop Cordileone commends prosecution of Serra statue vandals for working justice

denver newsroom, feb 22, 2021 / 07:01 pm mt ( cna ) .- amid calls from california activists to drop vandalism charges against five assailant...
Catholic News Agency

"Vatican Justice" Doesn't Hold Water

so, the big news out of the vatican this week – some of it, at any rate – was that pope francis has again tweaked the vatican’s criminal jus...
Christopher Altieri

Pope Francis visits Shoah survivor, poet Edith Bruck

pope francis called on edith bruck, the 88-year-old hungarian-born italian poet, playwright, director, novelist, and translator who survived...
Staff Reporter