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January 18, 2023

A splash of Spanish sun at the Royal Academy

January 18, 2023

For better or worse, the Catholicism of Spain and her Empire runs through this exhibition like gold – both metaphorically and literally. The show is full of many beautiful, precious and luminous things, and – although it sounds daft – they are all so Spanish. You can almost hear the deafening flourishes of Iberian batalhas breaking out overhead, played on bombastic horizontal silver organ pipes: wondrous, almost but not-quite vulgar, and ever-so-slightly out of tune.

Nicaraguan priest faces eight years in jail for social media post

January 18, 2023

A Catholic priest in Nicaragua is facing eight years in jail after he shared a social media post allegedly critical of Daniel Ortega’s hard-left regime. A Nicaraguan court has found Fr Oscar Benavidez Dávila guilty of “conspiracy” against the state. According to the Nicaraguan media outlet 100% Noticias, Judge Nancy Aguirre of the Tenth Criminal

Christian unity, Catholic incoherence and Pell’s remedy

January 18, 2023

The week of prayer for Christian unity can be, for many, one of the most depressing weeks of the year; so much aspiration deflated by so little achieved. Yet the Christian journey and the life of the Church are made up of such paradoxes, some of which verge on outright contradiction. How is it that