St Ambrose – the man who invented silent reading
We should celebrate St Ambrose, whose understated management skills kept the early church together – and who was the first person to read in silence
Is Belloc best forgotten?
The Catholic writer is nowadays neglected, but much of his writing is florid, dull and unreadable
Why Charlotte Church knows more about liturgy than Rupert Murdoch
His attitude to sacred music is symptomatic of the modern age’s attitude to religious art
Why do Catholics become Anglicans?
We must take a leaf out of the evangelicals’ book in trying to attract people back to Catholic churches
Catholics are being deceived into attending non-Catholic services
Foreign visitors may be attending High Anglican services under the impression that they are Roman Catholic
Benedict XVI is the apostle of anti-fundamentalism
Muslims who oppose fundamentalism should recognise the Pope as an ally
We must wish the Turks well in their struggle for Islamic democracy
Turkey is a great friend of Britain, but still has its problems. If Prime Minister Erdogan can overcome these he will go down as the greatest Turk since Suleiman the Magnificent
The Bishop of London is right about Anglicans using the Roman rite
One cannot be an Anglican and use the Roman Missal – it is one or the other
Novel writing and religion tend not to go together well
Believers ought not to be self-obsessed, but novels are about self-obsession
The confused historian who claims that Catholics are responsible for the Holocaust
Melanie Phillips says that Islam is intrinsically anti-Semitic; Daniel Goldhagen tries the same argument with Catholicism
