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Finally the experts agree that being Catholic is good for your health

November 28, 2023

It turns out that the psychologists have finally come round to the view that “being Catholic is good for you”. As Jordan Peterson very recently observed, Catholicism is “as sane as you can get”. Psychology has frowned on religion ever since Sigmund Freud believed he had made a connection between the practice of religion and

A magnificent show on the banks of the Seine: When the English spoke French

July 08, 2023

If fancy takes you to Paris in the next few months – the fires will probably be out by then – then don’t miss the chance to visit the magnificently restored Hôtel de la Marine on the Place de la Concorde, and a jewel of an exhibition at the Al Thani Collection there, Medieval Treasures

Apostasy of the Elites

May 01, 2021

As a guide about how to plan and think, Catholicism could answer the deepest concerns of the contemporary age, reasons Gladden Pappin

Find Mass boring? Good!

March 16, 2017

Praying through the tedium can be a more authentic way of sharing the divine life. Call it ‘bored again Catholicism’

What’s inside this week’s magazine?

March 16, 2017

Find out what's really happening in the Catholic Church

There is no middle way between atheism and Catholicism, says Harvard professor who has converted

October 28, 2016

Dr Adrian Vermeule has opened up about the influences which led him to Catholicism, including Blessed John Henry Newman

My journey from Tehran to Rome

September 29, 2016

As a Muslim-born Iranian, I first doubted God, then flirted with Nietzsche and Marxism. But the whisper of conscience kept suggesting that I go to Mass

University: a Catholic survival guide

September 22, 2016

It’s much easier than you think to keep the faith at a secular institution. But there’s one thing you must be prepared to do