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June 16th 2017

The war we’re not fighting against ISIS

Islamic extremists recruit their fighters with slick propaganda about Christian history. Exposing the lies should be part of our strategy

Comment and Features

The passion of Oscar Wilde

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Think of the “Second Spring” of English Catholicism and you will probably picture converts such as Cardinal Newman, Ronald Knox and GK Chesterton…

That Wages of Sin feeling

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For more than 40 years I smoked like a chimney (or “like a divil”, as Irish people used to say), and it wasn’t altogether surprising when, around 2011, I developed a bronchial condition which was categorised as a “COPD” – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…

Science and faith: Did Jesus redeem the Neanderthals?

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“Our results show that the paintings we dated are, by far, the oldest known cave art in the world, and were created at least 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa – therefore they must have been painted by Neanderthals.” So declared Science magazine earlier this year…

Confessions of an ex-Beyoncé fan

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People dismayed by Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016 got what they wanted last week when Beyoncé took the stage at the Coachella music festival in California: a rich woman flanked by men in uniform and exploding rockets, singing the praises of “leaning in”, diversity and sexual freedom…

A mission to the English

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Herbert Vaughan renounced a considerable inheritance and a warm, loving household to pursue his vocation as a priest…

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A resistance hero returns home

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And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle…

The Pope’s stand for justice and logic

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Monday was an extraordinary day in the life and case of Alfie Evans…

Diary by William Cash

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Last week I went to the funeral of my dear friend Philip Kerr, who wrote more than 30 novels…
Charterhouse

Richard Ingrams: The Prince’s windmills

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“Haz, we will change the world!” With these words, it is reliably reported, the American television actress Meghan Markle put the seal on her engagement to Prince Harry – or Haz, as he was henceforward to be known to his beloved…
Arts

Fine art: The artists inspired by a mythical Britain

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What do you do at the end of your life if you’ve built up an impressive private collection of artwork? Cecil French, a friend of the poet WB Yeats and the actress Florence Farr, was an unsuccessful artist and poet himself, but he collected Pre-Raphaelite art, which had gone out of fashion so was reasonably affordable, throughout his lifetime…

Music: When politics drowns out music

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After being closed for nearly three years for refurbishment, the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s Southbank has re-opened – looking not so different to the way it did before, apart from re-upholstered seats and cleaner concrete, but it’s good to have the place back…

The life and death of a literary dream

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The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors was an extraordinary flowering of Catholic literary culture in the middle of the 20th century…
Books

Ireland: from mass murder to modernity

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A Short History of Ireland by John Gibney, Yale, 256pp, £16.99 Irish history does not need much in the way of authorial flourishes in order to exert its grip…

Why science can be friends with religion

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Religion vs Science by Elaine Howard Ecklund and Christopher Scheitle, oup, 240pp, £20 Is there a tension between science and religious belief? Or can they happily coexist, perhaps even enriching each other? These questions have been debated since the 17th century, and were given a higher profile through the rise of the “New Atheism”, championed by Richard Dawkins…

A Calvinist intellectual worth arguing with

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What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson, Virago, 315pp, £19 As a novelist and essayist, Marilynne Robinson is unusual – unusual for our time, that is…
Last Word

Moral outrage

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Moral outrage is the antithesis of morality…
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