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November 21, 2017
Judith Flanders presents some fascinating cultural insights, but is too keen to play down the spirituality of the season
Why you should keep holy water in your home
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Holy water can incite piety, put to flight the Devil and even bring about bodily health.
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The brilliant German monk never intended to start his own Church
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An uncompromising new novel about corruption speaks loudly to a tense and divided America
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A new book says the idea that Stevens became a Catholic would be hard to digest. But that misunderstands his poetry
The multi-millionaire pizza magnate who decided to give his life to the Church
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An interview with Tom Monaghan's biographer
A gruelling exposé of high crime on the high seas
February 13, 2020
The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina Bodley Head, 560pp, £18.99/$30 Is the sea interesting? Voyages across the waters have inspired great writers from Homer...
Cardinal Sarah’s profound meditation on the God of love
December 17, 2019
Having mentioned an interview between the late Sir Jonathan Miller and Norman Lebrecht in a recent blog on Advent, I am now thinking of...
Movies, mothers, Camus – and other reasons to be Catholic
June 26, 2018
Peter Kreeft's 'Forty Reasons' is a commendably concise apologetic
Jesus and the Pharisees: an extract from Ross Douthat’s ‘To Change the Church’
April 6, 2018
Jesus transcended ritualistic legalism - but not the Ten Commandments
How Pope Francis encouraged a generational battle
March 29, 2018
Ross Douthat's book examines the deepest divisions in the Catholic Church
A Christmas book that’s just far too cynical
November 21, 2017
Judith Flanders presents some fascinating cultural insights, but is too keen to play down the spirituality of the season
Why you should keep holy water in your home
November 18, 2017
Holy water can incite piety, put to flight the Devil and even bring about bodily health.
St John Paul II was a sublime visionary, but had an Achilles heel
October 19, 2017
St John Paul II was a great theologian, but remarkably atonal in matters liturgical and artistic
Luther would be horrified by the world he forged
October 12, 2017
The brilliant German monk never intended to start his own Church
Vice on both sides of the thin blue line
July 14, 2017
An uncompromising new novel about corruption speaks loudly to a tense and divided America
The mystery of Wallace Stevens’ ‘deathbed conversion’ to Catholicism
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