By the end of Robert Harris’s V2, you are rooting for the rocket
September 24, 2020
V2 By Robert Harris, Hutchinson, 312pp, £20 Robert Harris’s new novel starts with a bang. A young WAAF called Kay Caton-Walsh is in a...
Books
The wild, baroque strain in Bernini’s soul
September 24, 2020
An Elephant in Rome: Bernini, The Pope and The Making of the Eternal City By Loyd Grossman Pallas Athene, £19.99 Loyd Grossman, presenter of...
An excellent guide to Fatima
September 24, 2020
Many people in this country don’t know about the significance of the apparitions at Fatima that took place in 1916 and 1917. Thus Fatima:...
A glimpse of St Thomas Becket’s elusive intellectual world
September 23, 2020
The Book in the Cathedral By Christopher de Hamel Penguin, £9.99 The year 2020 marks the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St Thomas...
A first-person account reminds us of the horrors of Auschwitz
September 23, 2020
It was the feast day of Saint Maximilian Kolbe on 14th August. Coincidentally, I was at Mass that morning to hear our parish priest,...
We still need St Thomas Becket’s intercession
September 22, 2020
I read William Cash’s article in the July Herald magazine, Canterbury Trails, with pleasure. I feel a slight but enduring affinity with St Thomas...
Myles Connolly’s novels and screenplays depicted both darkness and light
August 28, 2020
What a time it was to be an American Catholic artist in the 1940s and 50s. Joyfully Catholic films like Leo McCarey’s The Bells...
A book to remind us of the Last Things
August 25, 2020
When someone we love dies, it gives us an instantaneous and stark reminder of what mortality actually means – for us and for our...
‘Refrain from shaking hands’: a novel tackles the pandemic of 1918
August 24, 2020
The Pull of the Stars By Emma Donoghue Picador, 295pp, £16.99 Although The Pull of the Stars opens with nurse Julia Power’s early morning...
Can the scientific process be rescued from itself?
August 24, 2020
Science Fictions By Stuart Ritchie Bodley Head, 368pp, £18.99 When I gave talks on bioethical issues for the charity Life, for a while a...
Tolkien learned early that the road through life is a rough one
August 21, 2020
The Worlds of JRR Tolkien By John Garth Frances Lincoln, 200pp £25/$29.95 Early in his new study of the places that inspired Middle-earth, John...
In the new religions, the individual is both worshipper and deity
August 17, 2020
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World By Tara Isabella Burton Public Affairs, 320pp, £20/£28 Religious revivals are a frequent occurrence in American...
By the end of Robert Harris’s V2, you are rooting for the rocket
September 24, 2020
V2 By Robert Harris, Hutchinson, 312pp, £20 Robert Harris’s new novel starts with a bang. A young WAAF called Kay Caton-Walsh is in a...
The wild, baroque strain in Bernini’s soul
September 24, 2020
An Elephant in Rome: Bernini, The Pope and The Making of the Eternal City By Loyd Grossman Pallas Athene, £19.99 Loyd Grossman, presenter of...
An excellent guide to Fatima
September 24, 2020
Many people in this country don’t know about the significance of the apparitions at Fatima that took place in 1916 and 1917. Thus Fatima:...
A glimpse of St Thomas Becket’s elusive intellectual world
September 23, 2020
The Book in the Cathedral By Christopher de Hamel Penguin, £9.99 The year 2020 marks the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St Thomas...
A first-person account reminds us of the horrors of Auschwitz
September 23, 2020
It was the feast day of Saint Maximilian Kolbe on 14th August. Coincidentally, I was at Mass that morning to hear our parish priest,...
We still need St Thomas Becket’s intercession
September 22, 2020
I read William Cash’s article in the July Herald magazine, Canterbury Trails, with pleasure. I feel a slight but enduring affinity with St Thomas...
Myles Connolly’s novels and screenplays depicted both darkness and light
August 28, 2020
What a time it was to be an American Catholic artist in the 1940s and 50s. Joyfully Catholic films like Leo McCarey’s The Bells...
A book to remind us of the Last Things
August 25, 2020
When someone we love dies, it gives us an instantaneous and stark reminder of what mortality actually means – for us and for our...
‘Refrain from shaking hands’: a novel tackles the pandemic of 1918
August 24, 2020
The Pull of the Stars By Emma Donoghue Picador, 295pp, £16.99 Although The Pull of the Stars opens with nurse Julia Power’s early morning...
Can the scientific process be rescued from itself?
August 24, 2020
Science Fictions By Stuart Ritchie Bodley Head, 368pp, £18.99 When I gave talks on bioethical issues for the charity Life, for a while a...
Tolkien learned early that the road through life is a rough one
August 21, 2020
The Worlds of JRR Tolkien By John Garth Frances Lincoln, 200pp £25/$29.95 Early in his new study of the places that inspired Middle-earth, John...
In the new religions, the individual is both worshipper and deity
August 17, 2020
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World By Tara Isabella Burton Public Affairs, 320pp, £20/£28 Religious revivals are a frequent occurrence in American...
