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speaking at an event for a diocesan charity to which he is alleged to have illicitly given vatican funds, cardinal angelo becciu said on sun...

Hannah Brockhaus

oliver cromwell: commander in chief ronald hutton yale university press, 480 pages, £25 do we need another biography of oliver cromwell? mor...

John Morrill

the coronation events have been, as far as the king is concerned, very much a joint affair. queen camilla was centre stage throughout. durin...

Melanie McDonagh

last weekend, brazil’s former president, luiz inácio lula da silva, defeated the “trump of the tropics”, jair bolsonaro, to become the next ...

Ignatius Dean

my saturday afternoons begin with a quiet prayer of thanks for a lockdown legacy. in pre-pandemic days, i boarded a train for manchester at ...

Ed Stourton

the cathedral of notre-dame in paris is due to reopen later in the year, painstakingly restored following the devastating fire five years ag...

Alex Hodgkinson

the maiden of all our desires, a new historical novel by peter manseau, begins with a thrashing storm that “would become the stuff of bards’...

Nick Ripatrazone

"the vb who pens this april charterhouse chronicle is not the same person who wrote in march,” virginia barton, the catholic herald’s popula...

Peter Stanford

we are experiencing a new and exciting time of artistic creativity in catholicism – it extends to even the fusty basement of st mary moorfie...

Fiona Campbell Hicks

a traditional african leader from a region of cameroon currently torn by conflict has described a 3 june meeting with pope francis in the va...

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