SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
Constance Watson
Leticia Ochoa Adams
Hilary Mantel
Book used by Henry VIII’s lawyers in break with Rome found in Cornwall library
February 25, 2015
The copy of work on the theories of William of Ockham was found in a National Trust building
In the three-parent embryo debate, why is it assumed that scientists are always neutral and benign?
February 04, 2015
We have come to think that all scientific breakthroughs and discoveries must be viewed as 'progress'
Bishops criticise ‘perverse’ depiction of St Thomas More in Wolf Hall
February 02, 2015
Bishop Mark Davies says 'one of the greatest Englishmen' has been presented as 'a scheming villain'
Admiring Thomas Cromwell is a respectable way of expressing anti-Catholic feeling
January 20, 2015
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall propagates the myth that Britain became great once it had ditched Catholicism
Should we care that Hilary Mantel is anti-Catholic?
February 11, 2014
Fashions have changed meaning literature and the Church are no longer comfortable bedfellows
Can Catholics cope with the popularity inspired by Pope Francis?
December 11, 2013
The widespread appeal of Pope Francis, named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2013, must not be wasted
Congratulations to Hilary Mantel
October 17, 2012
The twice-winner of the Man Booker Prize has found new riches in the otherwise exhausted seam of Tudor history
A 21st-century Evelyn Waugh shows the flaws of the Enlightenment
September 07, 2012
AN Wilson's first novel for five years is a major event
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