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The Index of Prohibited Books, by Robin Vose

February 01, 2023

The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God Robin Vose Reaktion Press, £25, 296 pages This history of the Catholic Church’s modern attempt to control literary culture is not quite the secularist polemic that one might expect. This is partly because the author emphasises

When humanists fall out with each other

September 23, 2022

The great Christian humanists of the Renaissance, men like Erasmus of Rotterdam and St Thomas More, were committed to the Church even while producing superb scholarship

May 27, 2022

The God of Surprises strikes again; I am spending the summer term as Acting Head of Religious Studies & Liturgy at More House School, on the corner of Pont Street and Sloane Street, London. Founded by the Canonesses of St Augustine in 1952 with just three girls, it grew rapidly before passing into lay management

St Thomas More died for the Faith, not for religious freedom

June 21, 2018

The US bishops present More as a martyr of conscience. But it was a Catholic conscience before all else

Spend a little time with your patron saint this Holy Saturday

March 30, 2018

I’m a better Catholic – and a better person – for knowing my own patron

The poem that sums up the selflessness of the English martyrs

January 06, 2017

Blessed Thomas Belson was only 23 when he wrote of his imprisonment. Three years later, he was dead

How St Thomas More’s brother-in-law changed music history

September 03, 2016

John Rastell's work affected our liturgical experience forever

English martyrs’ relics to tour America

June 22, 2016

A nationwide tour of relics of St Thomas More and St John Fisher will begin on Sunday

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