My father, the reluctant agnostic
June 26, 2020
Sometime in 1913, two Leeds University students taking part in a Union debate on socialism declared that they were not only socialists but atheists....
Piers Paul Read
The popes who waged war
August 15, 2019
The Pope’s Army By John Carr Pen and Sword Military, 320pp, £25/$39.95 It remains a paradox, some might say a scandalous paradox, that the...
A military order that survived covetous kings
November 8, 2018
Piers Paul Read on how the Knights Hospitaller adjusted to the post-Crusades era The Knights Hospitaller in Great Britain By Michael Hodges, St Omer’s...
Piers Paul Read: The abolition of fathers
January 18, 2018
“The Devil is more intelligent than mere mortals,” Pope Francis told us recently. He is “a real person armed with dark powers … He...
Piers Paul Read: Fiction in an age of sexual confusion
November 16, 2017
Anatole France, the Nobel Prize-winning French novelist, observed that “any woman who finds herself alone with a man, thinks him an idiot if he...
Piers Paul Read: Europe’s Islam dilemma
October 5, 2017
A recently formed political party, Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, or AfD), did well in the last month’s elections in Germany. It gained...
Piers Paul Read: The eccentric pioneers of ecumenism
August 17, 2017
Fr Mark Vickers, our parish priest at the Holy Ghost and St Stephen in west London, is also an author and has recently published...
Piers Paul Read: Behind the Iron Curtain with Tom Stoppard
July 6, 2017
A glittering party was given last Saturday by Sabrina Stoppard in the Chelsea Physic Garden to celebrate the 80th birthday of her husband Tom....
Piers Paul Read: My journey from Mao to May
June 15, 2017
I once met Theresa May at a seminar organised by the think tank Politeia on a subject that I cannot now remember. There were...
Piers Paul Reid: The Fatima secret the Church ignores
May 11, 2017
Of the dozen or so sites where the Church accepts that Mary, the Mother of God, has appeared in visions, I have been to...
Why the Gospel made sense to pagans
April 13, 2017
The Dawn of Christianity By Robert Knapp, Profile Books, £25 The extraordinary success of the Christian religion, growing from a small group of baffled...
Piers Paul Read: The school of gender neutrality
March 16, 2017
It is an irony that a school named after St Paul should have an ethos that so radically contradicts the Apostle’s views on the...
My father, the reluctant agnostic
June 26, 2020
Sometime in 1913, two Leeds University students taking part in a Union debate on socialism declared that they were not only socialists but atheists....
The popes who waged war
August 15, 2019
The Pope’s Army By John Carr Pen and Sword Military, 320pp, £25/$39.95 It remains a paradox, some might say a scandalous paradox, that the...
A military order that survived covetous kings
November 8, 2018
Piers Paul Read on how the Knights Hospitaller adjusted to the post-Crusades era The Knights Hospitaller in Great Britain By Michael Hodges, St Omer’s...
Piers Paul Read: The abolition of fathers
January 18, 2018
“The Devil is more intelligent than mere mortals,” Pope Francis told us recently. He is “a real person armed with dark powers … He...
Piers Paul Read: Fiction in an age of sexual confusion
November 16, 2017
Anatole France, the Nobel Prize-winning French novelist, observed that “any woman who finds herself alone with a man, thinks him an idiot if he...
Piers Paul Read: Europe’s Islam dilemma
October 5, 2017
A recently formed political party, Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, or AfD), did well in the last month’s elections in Germany. It gained...
Piers Paul Read: The eccentric pioneers of ecumenism
August 17, 2017
Fr Mark Vickers, our parish priest at the Holy Ghost and St Stephen in west London, is also an author and has recently published...
Piers Paul Read: Behind the Iron Curtain with Tom Stoppard
July 6, 2017
A glittering party was given last Saturday by Sabrina Stoppard in the Chelsea Physic Garden to celebrate the 80th birthday of her husband Tom....
Piers Paul Read: My journey from Mao to May
June 15, 2017
I once met Theresa May at a seminar organised by the think tank Politeia on a subject that I cannot now remember. There were...
Piers Paul Reid: The Fatima secret the Church ignores
May 11, 2017
Of the dozen or so sites where the Church accepts that Mary, the Mother of God, has appeared in visions, I have been to...
Why the Gospel made sense to pagans
April 13, 2017
The Dawn of Christianity By Robert Knapp, Profile Books, £25 The extraordinary success of the Christian religion, growing from a small group of baffled...
Piers Paul Read: The school of gender neutrality
March 16, 2017
It is an irony that a school named after St Paul should have an ethos that so radically contradicts the Apostle’s views on the...
