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scotland’s catholic bishops have hit out at “insidious” attempts to bar a politician from party leadership because of her christian beliefs....

Simon Caldwell

science has attempted to explain it, but ties itself in knots. on march 25, we celebrate the feast of the annunciation, also known as the fe...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

i spoke recently with fr jeffrey kirby, a moral theologian and priest in south carolina, whose book sanctify them in truth is a response to ...

Katherine Bennett

when our world is becoming gender-neutral, there is still a vital place for women. my two-year-old daughter is going through a funny phase a...

Olenka Hamilton

it is easy to get distracted from what really matters in life for the first week of february, chez gooch was a plague house. all of us were ...

Niall Gooch

arabella illingworth reflects on the latest spetchley park sale. there is always something rather sad about the dispersal of the contents of...

Arabella Illingworth

on a perishingly cold day i find myself talking with harry christophers, the world-acclaimed conductor and director of the sixteen, about le...

Serenhedd James

a history of delusions: the glass king, a substitute husband and a walking corpse victoria shepherd oneworld, £16.99, 352 pages where do del...

Philip Sidney

andrzej piotrowski reflects on fr konstantin budkiewicz, 100 years after his murder. with his balding pate, pince-nez spectacles and boy-lik...

Andrzej Piotrowski

the race to become the republican challenger to joe biden in next year’s presidential election has suddenly started to heat up. republican p...

Nicholas Wapshott