Leaders

Crisis of disunity threatens German Church

Pope’s gift for publicity has its dangers

Columns

Serenhedd James – St Benet’s, Oxford hangs in the balance 

Ken Craycraft – Why we need Black History Month 

Constance Watson – Gospel tips for a good wedding 

Niall Gooch – Back to ascetics

Stephen Stewart – On policing speech

Gavin Ashenden  – Pope Francis and cancel culture

Features

German bishops are turning their backs on doctrine – Cardinal Müller discusses the state of the Church,Karl Gustel Wärnberg 

No greater nightmare – Justin Doherty says an amendment has been tabled to the Health and Care Bill that may at last persuade the NHS to be more sensitive to parents’ wishes

When right becomes duty – Simon Caldwell is horrified by how far ‘assisted dying’ has shifted from putting the terminally ill first

From monastery to manor – Syon: an English Eden, Jane Whitaker 

Cosmic conundrum – On Aquinas’s cosmology, Fr Robert Verill 

Unsettled law – Will the growing March for Life bring an end to Roe v Wade? Maria McFadden Maffucci

Education Supplement

Can secular schools have a religious ethos? Katharine Birbalsingh speaks to Theo Hobson 

Getting God into school – An interview with Cardinal Vaughan’s top head, Gertrude Clarke 

What is Catholic education? – What Aquinas can teach schools about teaching, Dominic Sullivan 

A Worthy headmaster – Championing the future of Benedictine education,William Cash

Arts & Books

Simon Caldwell reviews Entering the Twofold Mystery: On Christian Conversion by Erik Varden 

Jeremy Black reviews Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World by Richard Middleton 

Owen Matthews reviews The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: A Russian Adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker

Anthony Mould reviews Constable: a Portrait, by James Hamilton

Theo Hobson Can today’s novels do God?

Michael White on Verdi, Berlioz and more

Gertrude Clarke reviews Stories of a Generation 

Life & Soul

Diary – Nick Thomas 

The Garden – Let there be Light! Charlie Hart 

Baddesley Clinton – On the new murals beautifying Warwickshire, Michael Hodges

Richard J Ounsworth – The Bible isn’t for covering up 

Dutch Adrian – The Pope nobody wanted, Ray Cavanaugh

Travel & Pilgrimage

My road to Mount Athos – In search of answers to personal questions, Mark Jenkins 

Faith amidst the ruins – The Iraqi Christians protecting one of the world’s oldest churches, Tom Westcott 

On Pilgrimage with Tom Holland

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