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Fearing the knock of the papal police
July 13, 2017
Anna and Tranquillo by Kenneth Stow, Yale, £20 In May 1749 Anna del Monte, a young Jewish woman, was escorted by papal police to the Roman House of Converts. Over 13 days, vigorous attempts to convert her to Christianity proved futile and Anna was allowed to return home. At this period, an average of 10
Is there a better way to honour our war dead?
July 06, 2017
Fierce Imaginings by Rachel Mann, DLT, £12.99 Rachel Mann’s grandfather, Sam, owned a brown leather wallet, as “masculine as a shaving brush”. Mann would love the artefact to lead her back into memory but, with so little to go on, she worries that it is a “doomed task”. Then there’s the photo of Aunty Betty,
Anthony Burgess, lapsed Catholic bore
July 06, 2017
What with all the seminars and symposiums, it has been a busy year for Burgess scholars. This week the carnival continued in Manchester, where the International Anthony Burgess Foundation hosted a centenary conference. Delegates had some of the great man’s musical compositions inflicted upon them, but the literary discussions sounded suitably wide-ranging and exotic: papers
Anthony Burgess was a gifted writer, but had the theology of a lapsed Catholic bore
July 06, 2017
When it came to religion, the dazzling novelist was achingly dull
Jacob Rees-Mogg has chosen an excellent Catholic name for his newborn son
July 05, 2017
The Conservative MP's sixth child can learn a lot from his historical namesakes
An order emerges from the shadows
June 29, 2017
On Thursday, September 13, 1917, a Sydney newspaper, the Catholic Press, reported on one of the “most notable and impressive ceremonies and gatherings that have ever been held within the walls” of St Mary’s Cathedral. The great and the good of the city had assembled to mark the centenary of the founding of the Marist
When a tapestry cost as much as a warship
June 29, 2017
Houses of Power by Simon Thurley, Bantam Press, £30 It requires a great deal of archival work and a lively historical imagination to recreate the world of Tudor royal palaces. These buildings were centres of governance, worship, intrigue and domestic life, but all too often surviving physical traces are frustratingly limited. Archaeology helps, as do
Do grown-ups still need dogma?
June 08, 2017
Black Sheep and Prodigals by Dave Tomlinson, Hodder, £14.99 Dave Tomlinson declares that his book is “for people who are fed up with black and white religion”. He appears to crave an end to any certainty in matters of faith and to banish conformity, his great bugbear. We’re informed that playing by any given set
Monteverdi’s career of harmony and rivalry
June 01, 2017
Claudio Monteverdi, whose 450th anniversary we celebrate this year, was almost as good at grumbling as he was at composing. He had entered the service of Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua in the early 1590s and, by 1601, had become the duke’s maestro della musica. Regrettably, as Monteverdi explained in a missive of 1604, the wages
Rome’s come a long way since Dickens
May 25, 2017
In 1845, Charles Dickens witnessed a public execution in Rome. A man had been found guilty of beating a Bavarian noblewoman to death with her pilgrim’s staff and, on the day of the culprit’s beheading, the “pope’s dragoons” were deployed to keep the crowds in check. Dickens observed “fierce-looking Romans of the lowest class”, artists
Priests, prisoners and unhappy marriages
April 13, 2017
The Church Cannot Remain Silent By Oscar Romero, Orbis, £14.99 During his time as Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero received a predictably large number of letters. It fell to his private secretary to sort them into categories: expressions of solidarity, requests for advice, or, rather chillingly, “anonymous threats”. Romero appears to have been a
The Bible-bashing founding fathers
April 06, 2017
Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel Dreisbach, OUP, £20 Talk to the wrong American political pundit and you may come away with the impression that the nation’s founding fathers had little interest in religion and wanted to banish faith from the public sphere. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Daniel
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