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November 15, 2020

The McCarrick Report talks mostly about how Uncle Ted got where he did and stayed for so long, but it doesn’t precisely answer even that question.

The McCarrick Report: Weak links

November 15, 2020

For years, as reports about McCarrick mounted, the Church operated under a system of episcopal promotion that is still in place today.

Conservatism is about more than Trump – or even Roger Scruton

November 15, 2020

Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition By Edmund Fawcett Princeton University Press, 544pp, £30 What is conservatism? Is it dogma or disposition, ideology or instinct? And what are conservatives? What do they have in common with each other, past and present, and how do they differ from socialists and liberals? These are some of the

Prophets who foretold the end of Catholic Ireland – and mourned it

November 15, 2020

Long before its collapse became evident, three writers foretold the decline of the Irish Church – and worried about what would come next

As a museum director, I’ve been moved by a sense of the divine

November 15, 2020

The culture of patronage in the arts has been fundamental to the Church