God’s whistle: a poet’s view of the Black Death
April 2, 2020
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The sudden onset and spread of the coronavirus infection has reminded some people of another great epidemic that originated in
Management consultants could help the Church – up to a point
April 2, 2020
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Accountability and Leadership in the Catholic Church By Brian Dive Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 220pp, £61.99/$78.95 Brian Dive is a management
Nature-worship in the land of inequality
April 2, 2020
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Billionaire Wilderness By Justin Farrell Princeton, 392pp, £22/$15 Known as the Equality State, Wyoming is not quite the frontier state
A memoir that puts our current troubles in a deeper perspective
March 30, 2020
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I happen to be writing this on a Friday evening: for Jews, it is “Erev Yom Shi Shi, “the night
The female saints who confound feminist prejudices
March 27, 2020
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Recently I got drawn into a Facebook discussion about how downtrodden women have been throughout the ages – always at
English Catholicism and the European experience
March 26, 2020
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Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe By Lisbeth Corens OUP, 256pp, £60/$73.96 This monograph deals with English Catholics’
A medical memoir takes a turn into the macabre
March 26, 2020
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33 Meditations on Death By David Jarrett Doubleday, 304pp, £19.99/$24.95 Had David Jarrett’s new book 33 Meditations on Death: Notes
Charles Péguy: a poet trapped between heaven and earth
March 26, 2020
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Carnal Spirits: The Revolutions of Charles Péguy By Matthew W Maguire University of Pennsylvania Press, 296pp, £58/$69.95 The paradoxes of
An exorcist tells it as it is
March 24, 2020
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I have just been reading the Telegraph obituary of Dorothy Maclean, co-founder of the New Age Findhorn Community. I suspect
A spiritual book to help you through self-isolation
March 23, 2020
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In a time of enforced home isolation, we people of faith have the opportunity to think, to ponder, to pray and to explore more seriously what really matters to us in life
Welcome to the age of involuntary solitude
March 19, 2020
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A History of Solitude By David Vincent Polity, 304pp, £25/$35 In one of those strange quirks of timing, David Vincent’s
The Bible’s women take centre stage
March 19, 2020
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The Anointed By Michael Arditti Arcadia Books, 286pp, £16.99/$24.95 The Bible is said to be the world’s bestselling book, and