In Tours a fine basilica was built on the site of a vast medieval church knocked down during the Revolution
The late Nobel Prize winner never forgot her debt to the Loreto Sisters
Because we know less and less of the past, we know less and less of ourselves, and who we are
Ten years ago in Naples on the feast of St Januarius I prayed as I had never done before
In it we watch the only aristocrats on earth who seemingly never care about money
Indeed, he could not help but mention the Pope
What struck me about these extremists was the sheer ugliness of their attitude
But he was a wonderful writer and preacher: his Confessions ranks as one of the greatest books ever written
A Dance to the Music of Time ‘is just like life itself: the same people keep weaving their way in and out’
The Amanda Knox case is an indictment of Italian justice
The news media do not come out well, either. The obsession with Knox’s looks was infantile