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December 2021
November 29, 2021
Joanna Bullivant on how the digitisation of Elgar’s score of Cardinal Newman’s epic poem ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ sheds new light on the last 150 years of English Catholic cultures
November 26, 2021
Freeing oneself from the clutches of social media is a tremendous palaver but is worth it to escape something that has become ineffably sinister
November 25, 2021
The birth of the Christ child is an occasion to reflect on other babies and on life in the womb that precedes birth. The most dispiriting development recently in respect of prenatal human life is the European Parliament’s vote last month, directed mainly at Poland, but having far wider implications. Andrew Tettenborn examines its implications
November 25, 2021
There is something perpetually moving about the Christmas story. It is the account of how God became man, and, with magnificent indifference to human preoccupations with status and accomplishments, became man in a discomfiting fashion. The girl who became his mother was unmarried, her pregnancy understandably a profound shock to the man she was betrothed
November 25, 2021
Christmas celebrations this year will, thank God, be very different from the last. Ordinary life has for the most part resumed in Britain; in some respects, churches lag behind other parts of society in returning to normal. Many parish churches still require masks, social distancing, taped-off pews and thus limit the size of congregations. Others
November 25, 2021
How the four Masses of Christmas use different readings from the Gospels to tell the story of Christ’s coming
November 25, 2021
Stephen Bullivant examines how the pandemic has affected Mass-going in one anonymous diocese
November 25, 2021
After 44 years, William Cash returns to this ancient island which for centuries was Christianity’s easternmost frontier
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