What will the afterlife actually be like?
April 15, 2020
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When I was a child, we had a quaint kind of formula we would sometimes use in the playground to
Wodehouse, Herriot and travel literature: The best books for lockdown
April 9, 2020
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Well, here we all are. Confined to quarters. Recluses, by order of HM Government. No Mass, no pub, no meals
How the philosophy of ‘I’ took over
April 9, 2020
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Morality By Jonathan Sacks Hodder and Stoughton, 384pp, £20/$30 An intellectual backlash is taking place against the rise of new
Self-belief is not enough to make the most of old age
April 9, 2020
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The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Ageing Well By Daniel Levitin, Penguin Life, 528pp, £18.99/$22.50 Reading this book is
Fulton Sheen’s niece recalls happy times with her uncle in new book
April 6, 2020
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Those who love the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen and who hope to see him canonised one day will easily recognise
The ultimate tragedy isn’t death – it’s eternal separation from God
April 6, 2020
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I have been trying to read a chapter of the Gospels daily during Lent. My copy is the Navarre Bible,
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’