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April 06, 2024
April 06, 2024
The Sixteen are on the road again, with their annual Choral Pilgrimage. Last year the theme encompassed the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, that covert (or not-so-covert) Catholic who flourished in the reign of Elizabeth I and even under her patronage. I wonder what her chief minister, William Cecil – who probably
April 06, 2024
The cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris is due to reopen later in the year, painstakingly restored following the devastating fire five years ago this month. Amazingly, the celebrated Cavaillé-Coll organ survived with only minor damage. In the French liturgical tradition, much of the music for the Mass is improvised at the organ, often using the
April 06, 2024
ROME – After a massive earthquake shook Taiwan this week, leaving at least 10 people dead, the island’s Ambassador to the Holy See has thanked the world for its solidarity, and Pope Francis specifically for his spiritual closeness. “Right after the earthquake struck, the Taiwan government immediately activated the Central Emergency Operations Center, and launched
April 06, 2024
Mourners gather around the body of Palestinian Issam Abu Taha, a worker from the World Central Kitchen (WCK), who was killed in an Israeli airstrike along with other workers in the southern Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. Getty Images. NEW YORK – In light of the deaths of seven World Central Kitchen workers in
April 06, 2024
Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City Denis Romano  Oxford University Press, £31.99, 904 pages The Renaissance scholar Francesco Sansovino (1521-1586) called Venice, and its watery setting, “the impossible in the impossible”. Situated in a tidal lagoon and built largely on artificial islands, the sheer improbability of magnificent churches and shimmering palaces emerging from
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