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May 12, 2023

Hollywood continues to stereotype the Church, says Julia Hamilton. Miracle at Manchester is a drama, based on a true story, of high-school sophomore Brycen Newman (note the appropriate surname), a student at Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego who is diagnosed with medulloblastoma, an extremely aggressive and fast-growing type of brain cancer. The opening

Dogs at the foot of the Cross

May 12, 2023

Lucien de Guise on the tale of two paintings, by Craigie Aitchison and Salvador Dalí. Scotland is not the first place that comes to mind for depictions of the Crucifixion. A more likely image is of John Knox excoriating Mary, Queen of Scots, and others for their attachment to Catholic idolatry. The revenge of Scottish would-be

Lost and found at the Foundling Museum

May 12, 2023

Mary Walker takes in Finding Family at the Foundling Museum in London. Family is where you find it, as they say. It is a broad statement in the face of which the Church’s social teachings have to hold their own against a panoply of options that vie for both attention and recognition in a confusing

The Green Man on the King’s card

May 12, 2023

In the weeks leading up to the coronation, 2,000 invitations landed on doormats across the UK and the wider world. Perhaps in a last few citadels of Old England they were carried into oak-panelled breakfast rooms on silver trays by liveried footmen – or perhaps not. Either way, the design of the invitation is striking

Pope recognises martyrdom of Coptic Christians murdered by Islamic State

May 12, 2023

Pope Francis has recognised as martyrs a group of 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians murdered by Islamic State terrorists eight years ago. The Holy Father told Coptic Pope Tawadros II, the Patriarch of the See of St Mark, that the martyrs would be inserted into the Roman Martyrology “as a sign of the spiritual communion that