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Recovering the map of meaning
October 05, 2017
The Great Mystery by Alister McGrath, Hodder, £20 Alister McGrath reminds us that the big questions about life’s purpose and meaning take on special urgency in “a time of crisis and disenchantment”. We should have moved beyond crackpot Enlightenment optimism and faith in the “crystalline clarity of rationalist certainties”. If, after the chaos of the
The ‘anti-religion’ that roiled Europe
September 07, 2017
The Witch: a History of Fear, From Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton, Yale, £25 The study of witchcraft in early-modern Europe has, as Ronald Hutton explains, matured into “one of the most dynamic, exciting and thickly populated areas of scholarship”. It is a model of interdisciplinarity, archival endeavour and cautious deployment of
He scorned Jesuits. Will Francis beatify him?
September 07, 2017
It requires notable generosity of spirit for a Jesuit pope to regard Blaise Pascal as a potential candidate for beatification. In his 18 Provincial Letters, written between January 1656 and March 1657, Pascal (under a pseudonym) accused the Society of Jesus of having “forgotten the law of God, and quenched the light of nature”. Jesuits,
The KKK’s war on Catholics
September 02, 2017
The Klan is known mainly for its racism, but it also long harboured a virulent strain of anti-Catholicism
The KKK’s war on Catholics
August 31, 2017
During its 1920s heyday the Ku Klux Klan was unremitting in its hostility towards Catholicism. As one Arkansas member put it, the loyalty of Catholics was “across the sea and the religion they profess is a foreign religion … the quicker we invite them to go back to the other side of the big pond
We’re still arguing about Nostra Aetate
August 31, 2017
A Jubilee for All Time by Gilbert Rosenthal, Lutterworth, £30 Few of the documents produced by the Second Vatican Council made more of a splash than Nostra Aetate. Its first three sections mused, in general terms, on relations between Catholicism and all non-Christian faiths, but the fourth portion, focusing on Judaism, represented a watershed moment.
Confession must stay secret
August 24, 2017
Australia’s Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse has, I’m sure, the best of intentions, but its recent recommendations concerning the Confessional seal are troubling. The commission proposes that if a priest learns about abuse during confession, or if suspicion of such abuse arises, then he should inform the authorities. Failure to do
Why would a Catholic join the Ku Klux Klan?
August 24, 2017
Fr William Aitcheson has admitted he was a member of the KKK, one of the most brutally anti-Catholic groups in America
The Sisters at home with ambiguity
August 17, 2017
Leaving God for God: The Daughters of Charity 1847-2017 by Susan O’Brien, DLT, £25 From their founding in 1633, the Daughters of Charity have occupied an unusual place in the Catholic world. They have never been nuns, despite the famous white-winged headgear (ditched in 1964) and the quasi-monastic observances, rather an organisation of lay women
The sickly saint with a soul of steel
July 27, 2017
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, SJ by Silas Henderson, Ignatius Press, £12 Aloysius Gonzaga’s father was not best pleased when his teenage son announced that he wanted to join the Jesuits. As a member of one of the mightiest families in 16th-century northern Italy, and destined to become the marquis of Castiglione one day, Aloysius was not
When Rome condemned ‘Americanism’
July 27, 2017
In the 1895 apostolic letter Longinqua Oceani, Pope Leo XIII assured the Catholic world that “we highly esteem and love exceedingly the young and vigorous American nation”. The Church was doing very nicely in the Republic, especially with all the Catholic immigrants flooding in, but there were dangers. It would be “very erroneous to draw
Exploring London’s hidden holy corners
July 20, 2017
A Pilgrim’s Guide to Sacred London by John Michell and Jason Goodwin, Argonaut, £7.99 This charming little book is an invitation to “look beyond the tile and concrete, the asphalt and plate glass” of modern London and relish the fact that “sacred things do break through this carapace”. A series of manageable itineraries guide the
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