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When the Church faced up to modernity
June 21, 2018
Catholic Modern by James Chappel, Harvard, 352pp, £25 On the first page of this book, James Chappel states that the Catholic Church has “embraced modernity”. Jaws hit the floor across the secular West. The Church that opposes contraception, divorce and abortion, that clings to an all-male priesthood, has embraced modernity? What Chappel means, though, is
The Catholic visionary who founded the World Cup
June 14, 2018
Inspired by Pope Leo XIII, Jules Rimet created a tournament that brought warring nations together
The football visionary
June 14, 2018
Three lions on a shirt Jules Rimet still gleaming Thirty years of hurt Never stopped me dreaming – Three Lions by The Lightning Seeds with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel The decades of hurt plaintively recalled by Skinner and Baddiel on the eve of the Euros in 1996 have crept remorselessly onwards. It is now
Grounded in Ireland, reaching for heaven
June 07, 2018
A short story competition named in his honour is Francis MacManus’s surest foothold in posterity these days. But there was a time when, in recognition of novels such as The Greatest of These and Men Withering, MacManus might have been named among the lesser masters of Irish fiction. The Greatest of These (1943) is a
What therapists know about listening
May 31, 2018
Listening by Robin Daniels, Instant Apostle, 192pp, £8.99 “Eloquence wins far more praise and prizes than its vitally necessary counterpart: the quieter qualities of patient, understanding, self-effacing listening.” True enough. These words belong to the late psychotherapist Robin Daniels. The value we in the modern West attach to this skill has, he felt, been even
Chesterton’s message for postmodern man
May 17, 2018
The Scrappy Evangelist by Fr Paul Rowan, St Benedict, 656pp, £19 Christian apologetics in the early 21st century is a tough gig. As Fr Paul Rowan reminds us, contemporary Western unbelief has been “culturally induced”, rather than thought out. The postmodern mind has grown allergic to concrete claims to truth, fond of “promoting the journey,
The life and death of a literary dream
April 26, 2018
The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors was an extraordinary flowering of Catholic literary culture in the middle of the 20th century. It arose, without great fanfare, from Webster College, Missouri, in 1932, when a professor of English, Sister Mary Joseph, wrote to 100 carefully selected writers, inviting them to become members. Her intention was, it
Ireland: from mass murder to modernity
April 26, 2018
A Short History of Ireland by John Gibney, Yale, 256pp, £16.99 Irish history does not need much in the way of authorial flourishes in order to exert its grip. John Gibney’s approach is brisk without being hurried, cool without being unfeeling. The result is a very competent retelling of the old sorry tale. Five centuries
The accountant who captured the priestly soul
April 19, 2018
The World, the Flesh and Father Smith by Bruce Marshall, Human Adventure Books, 230pp, £12 Bruce Marshall was many things: a Scot exiled in France, an accountant, a soldier and a Catholic convert. He was also a novelist whose books sold well in his lifetime, but who has, regrettably, faded from view. It is heartening,
A true dialogue about the Pope and capitalism
April 05, 2018
Pope Francis and the Caring Society edited by Robert Whaples, Independent Institute, 256pp, £18 Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, concludes with a prayer containing these lines: “O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth, so precious in your eyes.” How can we best conduct this rescue
Why Christianity really won over the West
March 22, 2018
The Triumph of Christianity by Bart Ehrman, Oneworld, 352pp, £20 Over the course of the first four centuries of the first millennium, Christianity destroyed the other religions of the empire. Or did it? Bart Ehrman seems a little torn. Yes, he writes of old temples and statues of polytheism being demolished, of the very core
The Enlightenment without the shadows
March 15, 2018
The Enlightenment by Anthony Kenny, SPCK, 144pp, £7.99 When did the Age of Enlightenment begin? There is no Wittenberg-type moment, so Sir Anthony Kenny proposes April 16, 1746. The Battle of Culloden was “the last rally in Britain of those institutions that the Enlightenment saw as the forces of darkness” – Catholicism, that is, and
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