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Arts essay: The forgotten bard of faith and humanity
March 01, 2018
The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors was established in 1932 by an American nun, Sister Mary Joseph, at Webster College, St Louis. Its purpose was to honour contemporary Catholic writers and create interest in their work. The Gallery was by no means composed of American authors only. Its number included Ronald Knox and Jacques Maritain;
The revolution that unfolded before the Gospels
February 15, 2018
Crucible of Faith by Philip Jenkins, Basic Books, 320pp £23.99 “Barely acknowledged in historical writing, still less in popular perceptions.” Such, according to Professor Philip Jenkins, has been the fate of the intertestamental period, the time between the end of the era covered by the Hebrew Bible and the period in which the events of
A Catholic memoir without the misery
February 08, 2018
Queer and Catholic by Mark Dowd, DLT, 224pp, £14.99 Mark Dowd quotes St Augustine towards the end of Queer and Catholic: “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” In the preceding pages, he has traced the twists and turns of how his
Here’s how to become a Catholic hipster
February 01, 2018
The Catholic Hipster Handbook edited by Tommy Tighe, Ave Maria, 224pp £13 The Catholic Hipster Handbook is the work of a “salon” of American Catholic writers, gathered around editor Tommy Tighe. Many of them are decked out, by the sound of things, in thick-rimmed spectacles and high-top All Star trainers. Everyone is “rocking” something. Hipsters
The cultural powerhouse that was Byzantium
January 25, 2018
Byzantine Christianity by Averil Cameron, SPCK, 128pp, £7.99 “I have often had occasion to realise that Byzantine Christianity is poorly understood except by specialists, and I hope that this book will help to fill what I feel is a real gap.” Thus Averil Cameron concludes the preface to this new addition to the SPCK “Very
A realist’s guide to Catholic education
January 11, 2018
Reclaiming the Piazza II ed. by Leonardo Franchi, Ronnie Convery, Raymond McCluskey; Gracewing, 192pp, £12.99 Two notes of realism sound out from the introduction to these essays on Catholic education and the new evangelisation. First, the new evangelisation is for the long term. There is no obvious short-term fix to the profound challenges facing Catholic
History is not a simple tale of good and evil
December 21, 2017
The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens (Atlantic Books, 460pp, £25) declares itself “the epic story of the Indian Wars for the American West”. Nothing, though, can quite prepare you for seeing the whole catastrophe unfold – campaign by campaign, treaty by broken treaty, battle by gruesome battle – over the course of 460 pages.
The festive song co-authored by an angel
December 21, 2017
Many, many years ago now, when I was studying Music for the Intermediate Certificate (the Irish equivalent of O Levels, loosely speaking), we had a songbook containing 30 or so pieces. Some of those songs lodged in my adolescent head and haven’t been dislodged since. They remain among the tunes that come to me unbidden
One, holy, counter-cultural and apostolic
November 16, 2017
Why I Am Catholic (And You Should Be Too) by Brandon Vogt, Ave Maria Press, £16.99 Eight years ago, Brandon Vogt was “a young man with an apparently well-functioning brain”. But then he became a Catholic. Friends and family were, and remain, profoundly confused: anything but Catholic, surely? These days Vogt works for his mentor
Religion, money-worship and the beautiful game
November 09, 2017
Keegan and Dalglish by Richard T Kelly, Simon and Schuster, £20 Kevin Keegan and Kenny Dalglish are “football royalty, sporting kings”, throwbacks to the days when football was truly a “working-class calling”, meaning there are lots of miners and sons-of-miners in this book. Dalglish, the Glasgow Protestant, and Keegan, a Catholic from Doncaster, were hard-working
How Ireland resists the ‘Western Death Machine’
October 26, 2017
My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die by Kevin Toolis, Weidenfeld, £16.99 As a reporter and film-maker, Kevin Toolis “hunted death” for much of his adult life. He knows the “vinegary blood smell” and “bowelly meatiness” that hang in the air of mortuaries. He has visited a Malawian hospital
An apologist for the YouTube age
October 12, 2017
How Can You Still Be Catholic? by Christopher Sparks, Marian Press, £11 Christopher Sparks, an American blogger, asked his Facebook friends to finish the question: “How can you be a Catholic when … ?” The replies came thick and fast, Sparks set to work on his answers, and this book is the end result. Sparks
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