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Alexandra DeSanctis
Biden Wants to Cloak His Administration in Catholicism: Don’t Let Him
Constance Watson
Excuses, excuses
Niall Gooch
On the Church as the home of unity
Victoria Seed
Literary Helpdesk: 2nd (3rd?) Lockdown Edition (revised and extended)
Lucas Hollweg
Friday supper: Sea bass, avocado and Seville orange ceviche
Ken Craycraft
Open Letter to President Biden
Thomas Cromwell
Virtue now means thinking the right thing, rather than doing it
May 11, 2015
Loudly proclaiming one's beliefs as a way of 'virtue signalling' is nothing but moral posturing
Richard III fans are the medieval equivalent of 9/11 truthers
March 04, 2015
Richard almost certainly murdered his nephews. Why does he attract such a fan club?
TV review: Henry VIII receives a BBC makeover
February 19, 2015
The king is suspiciously slim in BBC Two's blockbuster Wolf Hall
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
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
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