Leaders

A joyous conversion

Catholic MP’s senseless killing must not be in vain

Investigate offences to prevent future scandals

Diary – Petronella Wyatt

Columns

Red Mass notebook – A Catholic judge hangs up his wig at the annual legal service at Westminster CathedralSir Stephen Stewart

Travelling Together? – As the two-year Synod on Synodality gets under way, its vague objectives cast a shadow over a Church striving for universality, Ken Craycraft

Empty vessels make the loudest noise – The usual suspects trumpet their self-indulgence as US abortion laws change, Constance Watson

Oh, for a clearer walk with God – On the urgent need for better homilies, Niall Gooch

The wonder of Wilton House – A national treasure, Serenhedd James

Letter from Rome – My miraculous healing got Newman his sainthood, Melissa Villalobos

Features

Science v the Soul – Brian Cox says science rules out its existence. He’s wrong, Robert Verrill OP

In memoriam – Paying tribute to Sir David Amess MP, Sir Bill Cash MP

Works and worship – On churches and their secular uses, Sarah Ward Clavier and Emma J Wells

Jonathan Myles-Lea – Remembering the Charles Ryder of country house paintings, Geoff Heath-Taylor

Howling critics – The rise of conservative Catholic Dominic Perrottet has prompted an angry backlash from secular Australia, Cronan Yu

Homelessness Charities Report

Street-art salvation – How art can help the homeless off the street, Olenka Hamilton

Stars and bars – Peter Sheppard recalls the cold and wet origins of The Passage’s gala concert

Arts & Books

Benedict XVI:A Life Volume II, by Peter Seewald, reviewed by Piers Paul Read

Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel, by Martyn Sampson, reviewed by Jonathan Bate

Europe’s 100 Best Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins, reviewed by Robert Gray

Women in the War, by Lucy Fisher, reviewed by Mary Kenny

The Young HG Wells: Changing The World, by Claire Tomalin, reviewed by Sam Leith

Evensong: People, Discoveries and Reflections on the Church in England, by Richard Morris, reviewed by Matthew Lyons

The Dissolution of Hilary Mantel – The lack of religion in Mantel’s Tudor trilogy leaves her books hollow, James Clark

Unlikely Catholics – Discovering the secret army of Catholics in Hollywood, Violet Hudson

Michael White – Our music critic returns with a round-up of the autumn season

Life & Soul

November Diary – Paula Byrne

The Garden – Making the best of a bleak midwinter, Charlie Hart

Tessa’s Feasts – Two classic desserts for the patron saint of apples, Tessa Balfour

The coming King – We should consider our vanities before the liturgical year’s end, Fr Richard J Ounsworth OP

900 years of the NorbertinesCharting the history of the Order, Michael Hodges

Travel & Pilgrimage

The Pope’s Aegean paradise – Syros: A Catholic stronghold in Orthodox Greece, Bill Colegrave

On Pilgrimage with Rachel Johnson

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