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Reviving the ‘C9’
In 2013, the cardinals seemed fresh and eager to help. Today, they look weary
Brazil’s bishops nervously await Bolsonaro’s first moves
The president-elect won the support of ordinary Christians, but Catholic bishops may prove his biggest foes
The Catholic who could succeed Angela Merkel
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer brings her faith into the public square. Will it stop her speedy rise to the top of German politics?
Cardinal Dulles was a quintessentially American thinker
My friend Avery Dulles was given the red hat late in life. But he continued to repair his shoes with tape and accept criticism with humility
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Many comedians have a Catholic background – and no wonder
Underneath it all, we’re laughing at ourselves
The Brothers who would not be moved
Will Gore on the film that captured the holiness of the Tibhirine martyrs
Why they shouted ‘Heil Hitler’
Would I have stood up and exposed the Nazi evils? Or just gone along quietly?
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Arts and Books
Casting off ‘rules and rigidity’ won’t save the Irish Church
Michael Duggan on an unconvincing prescription for reviving Irish Catholicism
How English choirs recovered from the Reformation – eventually
The idea of an unbroken choral tradition dating back to the Middle Ages is not quite true, says Michael White
Henry VI: The well-meaning ruler whose world fell to pieces
Henry VI was the wrong king at the wrong time for England, says James Baresel
The horror and the beauty of ancient Greece
This is the best ever English translation of The Odyssey, argues Harry Mount
