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Keeping the past alive

i have been reading the golden apple of samarkand by lala wilbraham, a wonderful new book which has evaded the reviewers, perhaps because it...
Olenka Hamilton

Diary: The season of grief is marked by hope, says Sarah Sands

since october, my father has been unwell in a nursing home and my mother has been keeping him company there. we said that we would see how t...
sarah sands

Ukraine: “If the churches are bombed, then we shall celebrate elsewhere,” says the Eparch of London

as the bbc reported a mounting death-toll in ukraine, on friday afternoon i spoke about the rapidly-developing situation to the rt revd kenn...
Serenhedd James

More than 800 anti-Christian incidents reported in France in last year

more than 800 anti-christian incidents were reported in france in 2021. the provisional figures were announced on feb. 10 as part of an ongo...
CNA Staff

Blair's Catholic 'Mr Fixit' gets jail for failing to pay £1million divorce settlement to aristocrat ex-wife

a high court judge has sentenced a catholic former millionaire to a year in jail after he failed to pay a divorce settlement to his aristocr...
Simon Caldwell

Sainthood cause opens for Pakistani security guard who sacrificed his life to stop suicide bomber

when a suicide bomber attempted to enter a catholic church in pakistan in 2015, a 20-year-old volunteer security guard blocked him. “i will ...
Katie Yoder

Can a secular school have a ‘religious-type’ ethos?

katherine birbalsingh, also known as “britain’s strictest headteacher”, is not shy of media attention. on the very day that i talk to her th...
Theo Hobson

Legal Notebook

in december, an ex-police officer called harry miller won a legal challenge against a national policy permitting forces to record gender-cri...
Sir Stephen Stewart

Festive fortunes

when opera composers take up the bible it isn’t usually in search of spiritual instruction. nothing of the sort was on his mind when verdi r...
Michael White

Lost your bottle? Turn to Mary

last saturday, i found myself – not for the first time and definitely not for the last – at a hen party. the minute you turn 30, hen parties...
Constance Watson