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Did World War II undermine Catholicism?

mass exodus by stephen bullivant oup, 302pp, £25/$32.95 why catholics leave, what they miss, and how they might return by stephen bullivant ...

Men's brains aren't wired to notice housework

it’s considered now to be a major cause of inequality between men and women, and a prime factor in the “gender imbalance” of society. that i...

Neo-Victorians like Rees-Mogg know what Britain is lacking

i’m very much enjoying our neo-victorian government. i’ve been pushing boris for pm for over a year: i said on bbc question time that theres...

Half of US Catholics think the Eucharist is only symbolic. How did this happen?

a news item last week reminded me of a story about the writer flannery o’connor. in one of her letters collected in the habit of being she d...

Fr Dwight Longenecker

The week in quotations

"for a man to suggest female ordination ... is an example of male arrogance ... men are not normative for the human race" sister helena burn...

Meanwhile: Pius IX praised in Parliament

the boris johnson era has already had one unexpected consequence: blessed pope pius ix is being given his due in parliament. the prime ...

Overlooked: Vatican sources raise alarm over financial mysteries

what happened? the financial irregularities which cardinal george pell tried to resolve have persisted, according to sources who spoke ...

Heretic of the week: Julius Evola

julius evola (1898-1974) was an extraordinarily bizarre and colourful individual, who must be considered to be the father of european right-...

Charles Coulombe

The Catholic doctor whose ruse saved Jewish lives

the documentary-maker stephen edwards’s most distinguished musical work is the score for his requiem for my mother (2017). the requiem was p...

What I discovered when I wrote a play about Cherie Blair

as a catholic, i’ve always been fascinated by cherie blair, who was born in 1954 and raised in crosby, a suburb of liverpool with a long-sta...

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