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December 06, 2018

Madison, Wisconsin Charity seeks funds for crypt in memory of bishop The diocese of Madison is seeking to raise funds for a cathedral crypt in memory of Bishop Robert Morlino, who died last month. The diocese has been without a cathedral since 2005, when it was destroyed by arson. The Catholic Diocese of Madison Foundation,

Why they shouted ‘Heil Hitler’

December 06, 2018

In a village in Poland in 1942 you, as a member of a company of German soldiers, are raising your rifle at a crowd of women, children and the elderly. Your commander has given leave to any soldier not to take part in the massacre. Out of 500 soldiers only 15 choose to opt out:

Establishment gossip and splenetic wit: journals for the Christmas market

December 06, 2018

For 36 years Kenneth Rose in his Sunday Telegraph “Albany” column chronicled the doings of the establishment. His connections with royalty were so extensive that when he once asked his secretary at the Sunday Telegraph: “Get me the King”, she replied: “Which King?” Rose liked “people of rank” and wrote approvingly of the historian HAL

Many comedians have a Catholic background – and no wonder

December 06, 2018

Back when the United States was primarily dominated – both in numbers and in culture – by the WASPs, a strange paradox emerged which has remained with us ever since: whatever has passed during a given period as popular entertainment for the Sons of Puritans has been dominated by three marginal elements – blacks, Jews

December 7, 2018

December 06, 2018

The leader who signed his own death warrant

December 06, 2018

In the late autumn of 1921, Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith and their team of four others travelled to London to engage in talks with the British government about what we might now call a kind of “Irexit” – Ireland withdrawing from the United Kingdom. It followed a bitter Anglo-Irish war and a gradual realisation by

Reviving the ‘C9’

December 06, 2018

In 2013, the cardinals seemed fresh and eager to help. Today, they look weary

Letters & emails

December 06, 2018

Why St John Vianney’s heart matters SIR – I can imagine an atheist reader scoffing if he stumbled on Michael Warren Davis’s account of the tour of St John Vianney’s heart in the United States (US news analysis, November 30). Why, I can hear him asking, would anyone think that a heart that stopped beating