SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
Arts
Believing in Miracles
July 01, 2021
Arabella Byrne
This film is based on the life of Sister Lucia, a Portuguese nun who claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary in a field in Fatima, Portugal in 1917.
Christianity and all that
June 01, 2021
Harry Mount
The Treasures of English Churches: Witnesses to the History of a Nation, by Matthew Byrne Shire Publications, £20, 160 pages   And Did Those Feet: The Story and Character of the English Church AD 200-2020, by Patrick Whitworth  Sacristy Press, £40, 662 pages ________ The Archbishop of Canterbury and every single Anglican vicar and Catholic
Our future lies with Dante, 700 years after his death
June 01, 2021
The Catholic Herald
Why do we commemorate literary anniversaries?
British Museum’s Nero exhibit is ‘hair-flattening’ take on infamous figure
May 27, 2021
Lucien de Guise
"It’s not a whitewash of the man whose very name suggests darkness," writes Lucien de Guise. "This exhibition is more of a blank slate, trying to rehabilitate an individual whose reputation is unknown to younger visitors."
A Martyr for all Seasons
May 25, 2021
Guy Hayward
The British Museum’s dazzling survey of the life and legacy of the cult 12th-century saint Thomas Becket is set to be an unlikely summer blockbuster, reports Guy Hayward
All Ireland that Froze for Want of Europe
May 02, 2021
Michael Duggan
A long read by Michael Duggan on the Irish novelist, Francis MacManus, who "could write about the Catholic faith in a way that was tender but committed, welcoming 'the winds and rains of grace which blow from eternity through the gates of the sacraments upon the human creatures of this narrow world'."
JBW, Genesis Foundation offer a chance for Emerging Writers
April 28, 2021
Staff Reporter
The 2021-2022 Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writers Programme is open to applicants with at least 18 years of age and living in the UK, who have no more than three years’ experience of being published and feel they would benefit from the support and insight of an established writer.
Bruce Springsteen’s Glory Days
April 27, 2021
Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone explores the spiritual songbook of one of the great contemporary American artists, Bruce Springsteen.
Composer at the crossroads
April 01, 2021
Stephen Walsh
Stephen Walsh on why the great composer Igor Stravinsky returned to God later in life – and why he almost converted to Catholicism
Every word a painting
April 01, 2021
Laura Freeman
The Sleeve Should Be Illegal is a collection of 61 pen-portraits of works in the Frick Collection.
Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon: More fluff than teeth
March 04, 2021
Steven D. Greydanus
Raya is a mythic tale about an intrepid young princess leaving her homeland on a quest to save her world from an intangible menace ... but does it deliver?
Beauty and the Damned
March 01, 2021
Jonathan Bate
Jonathan Bate on the shared psyches of John Keats and F Scott Fitzgerald
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