In a recent article for Catholic World Report I offered some “lessons from literature on the coronavirus”, focusing on the three chapters in Manzoni’s classic novel, The Betrothed, which are set during the plague that […]
“In times of pandemic,” Pope Francis said on March 15, “[priests] mustn’t be the don Abbondio of the situation.” The pope’s words will probably mean very little to anybody except Italians because they refer to […]
How exactly will the British “keep calm and carry on” during the crisis caused by the coronavirus? This is the question addressed by British journalist and historian Simon Heffer in an article published in the […]
Few people in today’s godless England have heard of Our Lady of Walsingham. But there was a time that she was known and revered throughout the whole of Christendom, to such a degree that she […]
Most anti-Brexit polemic is so inane, banal and stultifyingly dull that it hardly warrants the time and effort of a response. Occasionally, however, we come across a piece of rhetoric which is clever and imaginative […]
On January 27, 1945, advancing Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz concentration camp. Today, 75 years after the event, wars are still being fought over who was responsible for World War Two and the many atrocities which […]
If I were to package together all my favourite Christmas poems, wrapping them up for my friends and placing them under the tree, which would I choose? Having asked myself this question, I set about […]
On November 22, 1963, at 2:30 pm central time, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. An hour earlier, across the Atlantic, C.S. Lewis had died at his home in Oxford. A few short hours […]
Oh what’s love got to do, got to do with it, What’s love but a second-hand emotion; What’s love got to do, got to do with it, Who needs a heart When a heart can […]
Could the most famous writer in history have been a Catholic? The very suggestion is enough to throw the liberal literary establishment into an apoplexy of spluttering fury. How could the Bard of Avon, who […]
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