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Here be Dragons

February 08, 2021

Constructing a film out of a story as beloved of readers as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, or indeed Pride and Prejudice or Brideshead Revisited, is a delicate art. Very often, the result is a phenomenal disappointment. We will all have myriad examples to prove this. Not all films are worthy of their titles.

The Christian sense and sensibility of Jane Austen

July 18, 2017

Jane Austen was Low Church but she had high religious ideals

Fanny Burney: the Jane Austen contemporary who really did despise the lower classes

January 27, 2017

Her charming but cruel novel Evelina is a great read – but it lacks the true greatness of Jane Austen's work

Pornography lessons? Not at my school, says Catholic headmaster

October 20, 2016

Dr James Whitehead has responded to calls for pornography to be taught in schools

The tragedy of Anita Brookner’s novels

March 17, 2016

There was certainly an inner melancholy to Anita Brookner’s fiction

Downton may not ‘do God’ but it certainly does anti-Catholicism

November 18, 2015

Downton is accurate in at least one regard in that it gives us a taster of anti-Catholic prejudice

Should Catholics avoid erotic romance novels?

December 05, 2013

No great novelist should have to resort to explicit sex scenes

I love to admire this beautiful God-made world but I wish we could see beyond what God has made

October 21, 2013

Have we turned nature into another form of self-indulgence?

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