Why opera can’t get enough of nuns
March 12, 2020
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In the world of opera, nuns are frequent visitors and fair game. They’re exotic, not infrequently neurotic, blistering with fervour
How a once-pious author ended up on the Index
March 5, 2020
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How did a much-esteemed French Catholic author ruin his career and reputation for piety? Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) was a
A masterful mystery with a dead llama
March 5, 2020
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The Stranger (Netflix Originals) opens with Adam Price (Richard Armitage) taking one of his two boys to a football match
‘It’s my response to consumerism’: A filmmaker’s fascination with Trappists
February 27, 2020
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Outside the City is a documentary film about the life of Mount St Bernard Abbey, Leicestershire, as the community moves
An eerie musical trip to 16th-century Catholic Spain
February 27, 2020
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It is often said that scholars know almost nothing about Shakespeare’s life. The assertion helps sustain the continuing claims that
Sanditon: An insufferable take on Austen’s unfinished novel
February 20, 2020
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Sanditon, now airing on PBS and available on DVD in Britain, is based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel of 1816-1817.
A French Anglophile’s curious path to the Church
February 20, 2020
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Since little by the French Catholic author Charles Du Bos (1882-1939) has been translated, and nothing is in print today,
England was cruelly wrenched from the Church – but the story isn’t over
February 13, 2020
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Over the past two years, the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham has been visiting every Catholic cathedral in England
Diary: A visit to a Jerusalem poet
February 13, 2020
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Tel Aviv gleamed like a jewel beneath us as we landed at Ben Gurion Airport at night and went through
Parasite review: An unmitigated triumph for South Korea’s Ken Loach
February 13, 2020
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South Korean director Bong Joon-ho is a devotee of Ken Loach, the British socialist director, and it shows. In Parasite,
Virginia Woolf disdained her. But Alice Meynell shaped the age
February 13, 2020
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Can a Catholic poet be so generous in helping fellow writers that her own literary efforts become neglected by posterity?
The gritty novelist who owed his career to a cardinal
February 6, 2020
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Sometimes an understanding superior can make or break the literary career of a cleric. In 1964, Cardinal ClémentÉmile Roques, Archbishop