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July 05, 2023

A Century of Poetry Rowan Williams SPCK, £19.99, 320 pages In Rowan Williams’s recent compendium he presents and examines 100 poems composed in the last century on the subject of faith. The poems range from canonical Christian meditations like TS Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” to lesser-known contemporary jewels like Sally Ito’s “At the Beginning

This is not an adventure: Dial of Destiny reviewed by Julia Hamilton

July 05, 2023

Julia Hamilton finds Dial of Destiny just a bit dull. To use the word resurrect-ion to describe Harrison Ford’s appearance after such a long gap (Crystal Skull dropped in 2008) in this fifth and final instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise is a bit of a contradiction. When we first meet Indy in the opening

Poetry about walking the Camino

July 05, 2023

Nick Ripatrazone reflects on a tender and attentive book of illuminating poetry documenting the journey to Santiago de Compostela Nick Maione, an American poet and Byzantine iconographer, has released a new book with Angelico Press – a New York City-based Catholic publisher – titled Infinite Arrivals. The collection is a mixture of lineated and prose

Pope’s new orthodoxy chief hits out at critics of his book about kissing

July 05, 2023

The new head of a major Vatican department has defended a controversial book he wrote about kissing when he was a young priest. Argentine Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández of La Plata was appointed prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope Francis only to meet with criticism over the contents of Heal

Bishop Álvarez released from prison

July 05, 2023

The Nicaraguan regime has released a Catholic bishop jailed earlier this year for 26 years on treason charges connected with his use of social media, according to reports. Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa has been moved from the Jorge Navarro de Tipitapa National Penitentiary System, a notorious prison known as “La Modelo”, and might soon