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A ‘monstrous egotist’ searching for a lost paradise
May 25, 2017
Miłosz: A Biography By Andrzej Franaszek, translated by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker,Harvard university press, £30 Near the outset of this new biography of Czeslaw Miłosz, the Polish poet and Nobel Prize-winner, is a beguiling depiction of a time of peace in rural Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire), where Miłosz was born in
Another Catholic manager has won the Premier League. Here’s why we shouldn’t be surprised
May 21, 2017
Antonio Conte, manager of Chelsea, is on the record about the strength of his faith, telling newspapers about his prayer life and about meeting the Pope
The adventures of Poland’s ‘ecstatic pessimist’
May 04, 2017
It is the late 1970s. From his study on Grizzly Peak, California, a 66-year-old man gazes out on the Pacific Ocean, and asks himself: “Who was I? Who am I now?” This man is Czesław Miłosz. Born into a Lithuanian-Polish family in 1911, he studied law in Vilnius before making his name as a young
A Christian defends secular humanism
April 27, 2017
God Created Humanism: The Christian Basis of Secular Values By Theo Hobson, SPCK, £16.99 Theo Hobson wants to get a couple of things straight about secular humanism. First, the creed of the modern West is mankind’s best hope. It surpasses frail, fallible benevolence with a desire for authentic universalism. Second, secular humanism is paradoxical. It
‘Somebody has to say this’
April 27, 2017
Rod Dreher thinks that Christians will soon be a tiny, embattled minority in the West – unless they embrace the radical ‘Benedict Option’. Interview by Michael Duggan Your book The Benedict Option [which calls on the faithful to step back from politics and embrace a traditional, Christian way of life] and recent books by RR
Rod Dreher: why Christians need to embrace the ‘Benedict Option’
April 27, 2017
Dreher says Christians in America have to accept they will soon be part of a tiny, embattled minority
Roy Hattersley: ‘The Church’s real heroes are the little people’
April 20, 2017
The former deputy Labour leader, a 'hardened atheist', was so intrigued by British Catholics he wrote a 600-page history of them
‘The Church’s real heroes are the little people’
April 20, 2017
I am in the book-lined study of a flat deep in the shadow of Westminster Cathedral. On the table sits The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to the Present Day and opposite me is its author, Roy Hattersley: former Labour Cabinet Minister, retired peer, hardened atheist. The
Should 21st-century Christians live like monks?
March 23, 2017
The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher, Sentinel, £20 This is the age of the New Low. The Benedict Option is the latest in a string of books coming out of America arguing that the status of Christian civilisation in the United States (and, by extension, the West) has sunk to unprecedented depths. It takes its
Does Roger Scruton think like a horse?
March 09, 2017
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton, Princeton, £18.95 Ignore the knighthood, the professorships, the medals, the 40 or so elegantly argued books like this one. Sir Roger Scruton is an animal. He is driven by biological needs, territorial impulses, a reproductive imperative. Him, you, me; hedgehogs, chimpanzees, rutting stags: we are all part of one
The bridge where the sacred and secular meet
March 02, 2017
Is there is a panorama of London these days that can best what meets the eye on Lambeth Bridge? The classic prospect of the Houses of Parliament commands attention, of course, but so does, in quite a different way, the upstream vista. There, Millbank Tower surges skyward, proclaiming the arrival of modernism since 1963, while
The enigmatic legacy of a bloodstained queen
February 23, 2017
Isabella by Giles Tremlett, Bloomsbury, £25 From ascending the throne in 1474 to her death in 1504, Isabella of Castile transformed her homeland, a “fractious, ill-disciplined nation” into a European powerhouse. Intense, devout and single-minded, she “did more than any other monarch of her time” to reverse the decline of Christendom. Her achievements are “not
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