‘Joyous atheists’: the ultimate oxymoron?
The phrase strikes a tinny note against this Catholic’s lexical eardrum
Dawkins has all the vitriol of Trevor-Roper – and none of the panache
The elegant Oxford scholar paved the way for Richard Dawkins
When Cardinal Daly clashed with a Cambridge don
His book, Morals, Law and Life, is a fine defence of Catholic moral teaching
I’m starting to think Melanie Phillips is right. Conspiracy theories are everywhere
When I leafed through her latest book, The World Turned Upside Down, I thought she was exaggerating. Then two friends put me straight
Fr Ian Ker brings clarity to the question of Newman and his male friends
If you caught the Radio 4 play about Newman, you have all the more reason to read this new booklet
How to kill the myth of Hitler’s Pope
Harold Bloom said he wanted to bin all the remaining copies of his novel. Perhaps that idea could be taken up elsewhere
Christopher Hitchens: a time for reflection?
The ‘Scourge of God’ has throat cancer. He has my sympathy, and prayers
‘Why were you Catholics so awful to the Jews during the War?’
Some controversies just won’t lie down and die. Pius XII and the Holocaust is one of them.
