December 7, 2018
‘I have nothing of a saint about me,’ Newman insisted. He was wrong
When Newman’s friends called him a saint, he insisted he was a mere writer. But now Rome has accepted a second miracle
News Analysis
Life & Soul
A lesson in a parking lot
‘Our feelings are important and need to be honoured, but we’re more than our feelings’
Arts
The Brothers who would not be moved
Will Gore on the film that captured the holiness of the Tibhirine martyrs
Books
Henry VI: The well-meaning ruler whose world fell to pieces
Henry VI was the wrong king at the wrong time for England, says James Baresel
How English choirs recovered from the Reformation – eventually
The idea of an unbroken choral tradition dating back to the Middle Ages is not quite true, says Michael White
Casting off ‘rules and rigidity’ won’t save the Irish Church
Michael Duggan on an unconvincing prescription for reviving Irish Catholicism
Opinion & Features
Establishment gossip and splenetic wit: journals for the Christmas market
Reviving the ‘C9’
In 2013, the cardinals seemed fresh and eager to help. Today, they look weary
Diary
Newman’s greatest achievement: putting the personal over the abstract
The values that defined Bush 41
Cardinal Dulles was a quintessentially American thinker
My friend Avery Dulles was given the red hat late in life. But he continued to repair his shoes with tape and accept criticism with humility
Why they shouted ‘Heil Hitler’
Would I have stood up and exposed the Nazi evils? Or just gone along quietly?
Many comedians have a Catholic background – and no wonder
Underneath it all, we’re laughing at ourselves
The leader who signed his own death warrant