8+ mon, 6+ day ago   (306+ words) Bloomsbury, pp. 256, £20 Headline, pp. 320, £25 New Modern, pp. 400, £25 What did David Bowie mean by ‘No confessions/ No religion’ in his lyrics to ‘Modern Love’? Peter Ormerod proposes what at first seems an unlikely theory – that Bowie was talking about Gnosticism, the…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (848+ words) Pope Leo XIV had a relatively quiet first 11 months on the Chair of St. Peter. Then Mt. Trump erupted in April, with the voluble and volatile POTUS accusing the Chicago-born pontiff of everything from squishiness on crime to squishiness on…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (597+ words) Pope Leo XIV has just passed the first great test of his pontificate. He has published a thoughtful encyclical on a controversial topic that (a) does not contain whole sections obviously farmed out to progressive lobbyists; (b) is not stuffed with semi-literate…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (285+ words) On the afternoon of Easter Sunday last year, Pope Francis was driven through St. Peter’s Square in an open-topped Popemobile. A few weeks earlier he had nearly died from pneumonia, so pilgrims were thrilled to watch him blessing babies. They…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (420+ words) “I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven,” Donald Trump told a group of journalists aboard Air Force One in October. “I think I’m not, maybe, heaven-bound.” “My phone started blowing up,” says Paula White-Cain, Trump’s…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (542+ words) On Wednesday, the largest traditional Catholic order of priests in the world, the Society of Saint Pius X, consecrated four bishops without a papal mandate. The Vatican’s response was swift and brutal. Today, it announced that not only have the…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (141+ words) Even the most capable British undergraduates today struggle to recognise Christian references Post-Christian Britain is here to stay. But that does raise an interesting question as to whether a general knowledge of the Bible, and an appreciation of its manifest…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (258+ words) In my experience, instead of behaving as if they were subject to God and his moral requirements, ‘woke’ prophets conduct themselves like little gods, subject to none but themselves, tyrannical and merciless Exhibit B: from June 1940 when France fell, to…...