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outside sporting occasions, the sudden emergence of flags is seldom a good sign. it’s usually an early warning sign of a power grab. it spel...

Gavin Ashenden

michael white finds the perfect setting for górecki’s symphony of sorrowful songs. some years ago i went to warsaw to meet henryk górecki, w...

Michael White

anyone still doubting whether slopes are in fact slippery either hasn’t been for a walk around colley hill in february or has failed to noti...

Katherine Bennett

the catholic church's child protection agency has severely criticised the former bishop of hexham for putting children at risk by promoting ...

Simon Caldwell

france is honouring a catholic backpacker as a “hero” after he fought off a man attacking children with a knife in a playground. the frenzy ...

Simon Caldwell

pope francis is “steadily improving” two days after he underwent abdominal surgery to correct an incisional hernia, a vatican spokesman said...

Hannah Brockhaus

lucien de guise finds that a splendid exhibition at the british museum is  full of visual treats. the british museum doesn’t conceal mu...

Lucien de Guise

a man of great charm and gentle kindness. the drummond earldom of perth in the peerage of scotland was created in 1605, but the most determi...

The Catholic Herald

it is often said that the test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain...

Georgia L. Gilholy

thomas arundell, the younger son of sir john arundell of lanherne, in 1541 acquired the (previously monastic) manors of tisbury and donhead....

Michael Hodges