Leaders

Why Catholic journalism matters

Should President Biden be barred from communion?

Threats to the Extraordinary Form

Diary

Tom Tugendhat MP

Columns

Bigger is better – why large families are best, by Constance Watson

Quite Extraordinary – On keeping the Latin Mass, by Joseph Shaw

Soul-searching – complex formulae cannot capture the simplicity of the soul, by Jaspreet Singh Boparai

Personal history – Two lives linked by one autumn day 80 years ago, by Serenhedd James

Features

God knows, we doubt – why doubt matters, Br Mark Dohle

Full Marx for the Dominican – remembering radical theologian Herbert McCabe, by Melanie McDonagh

Finding peace – how an archaeologist found solace in St Fillan – the patron saint of mental health, by William Cash

Communion for pro-choice politicians – the case against, by Fr Gerald Murray

Philip Jebb – the Establishment’s Catholic architect, by William Cash

Decline and Fall – As The Universe goes under, we ask why, Stephen Bates

Arts & Books

Catholics During the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty by Eilish Gregory, reviewed by John Adamson

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd, reviewed by Emilie Morrison

Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception by Adriana Valerio, translated by Wendy Wheatley, reviewed by Sylvana Tomaselli

B (After Dante) by Ned Denny, reviewed by Jonathan Gaisman

Hogarth: Life in Progress by Jacqueline Riding, reviewed by Fram Dinshaw

Eric Gill: a moral problem – on the centenary of his artist’s guild, do we need to reappraise his genius? By David V Barrett

A conflicted man – GK Chesterton’s brush with sainthood, by Richard Ingrams

Write-on history – historical fiction softened anti-Catholic prejudice before 1829, by Rosemary Hill

Film – Rebel Hearts reviewed, by Annabel Byrne

Life & Soul

August Diary – Alexander Waugh

The Garden – reflecting on the year’s wins and losses, by Charlie Hart

The Pointed Arch – Preston: a rare Catholic cityscape, by Michael Hodges

Tessa’s Feasts – Pancettaed grouse for the Glorious 12th, by Tessa Balfour

Pilgrimage & Travel

A pilgrim’s confession – against the secular pilgrim, by James Jeffrey

On Pilgrimage with Emma Bridgewater

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