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Preaching to the unconverted

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Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance Emily Michelson Princeton University Press, £30, 352 pages In 1555 Pope Paul IV decreed that Rome’s Jews, “who through their own fault were condemned to eternal servitude”, should now live within the walls of a ghetto whose doors would be locked at night. These strictures

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Seeing Spain’s history through art

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Incomparable Realms: Spain during the Golden Age, 1500-1700 Jeremy Robbins Reaktion Books, £25, 464 pages Spain’s Golden Age spanned the reigns of five monarchs which form-ed a “lineage of piety”: Charles I (Charles V when Holy Roman Emperor), Philip II, Philip III, Philip IV, ending with the death in 1700 of Charles II, the “Bewitched”,

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Bach’s divine gift brought to life

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The Great Passion by James Runcie Bloomsbury, £16.99, 272 pages This sublime novel about the domestic and spiritual genesis behind Johann Sebastian Bach’s writing of his St Matthew Passion – first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday, 1727 – is every bit as brilliantly dramatic as Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus. I couldn’t put it

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Entertaining the prospect of a papal resignation

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It is not, as the Herald goes to press, apparent that the pope will resign, but plainly there is speculation that he may do so this year. He is suffering mobility problems, which mean he often uses a wheelchair, and he can no longer travel for long distances by car or by helicopter. He has

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Scotland’s loss of religion is a matter of grave concern

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It comes as no surprise that the leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, should have called for a new referendum on the issue of independence and that the prime minister, Boris Johnson, should promptly have said no. This issue will not be resolved soon, but it could gain fresh traction if the next

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Cardinal Arinze upholds the values of Church teaching

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Cardinal Francis Arinze, whom Simon Caldwell interviews in this magazine, carries particular authority in the Church. He is almost 90, and his age gives him a valuably long perspective on events. He was made a bishop in time to attend the last session of the Second Vatican Council when Apostolicam Actuositatem, the decree concerning the

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