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Nostalgia For Nihilism
Page 8 from 2nd May 2008T he BBC is enjoying one of its periodic spasms of second childhood as it relives for a new generation the events of 1968. In that famous Prague......

Don't Let The High Street Spoil Your Advent
Page 9 from 28th November 2008Mark Dowd explains why he is helping to launch a campaign to 'reclaim Christmas' from big business T here are some sermons which will always live......

Farewell To The Poles
Page 16 from 7th November 2008Stuart Reid Charterhouse W ill the misery never end? On top of everything else the credit-crunched middle classes now discover that they may have......

Lent Makes Me Long To Taste A Sauce Cardinal
Page 16 from 14th March 2008By Anna Arco C appuccino, agnolotti. Tete de Moine, hot cross buns. These words pattered through my head with a pleasing rhythm as I lingered over......

Robin Baird-smith Charterhouse
Page 16 from 8th August 2008F or a decade or so I had the good fortune to be Muriel Spark's publisher. This outstanding Catholic novelist used to attend Mass regularly but......

Let's Try Jazzing Up The Mass
Page 9 from 8th June 2007Sarah Johnson on a modern Catholic choir that would get even Pope Benedict XVI's foot tapping I f I say "modern Catholic church music", what does......

My Easter Indulgences
Page 20 from 9th April 2010Stuart Reid Charterhouse I s it a sin, or at the very least an occasion of sin, to weigh yourself at the end of Lent? Suppose, for example, you......

The Church Cannot Be
Page 10 from 17th February 2006renewed without you In this new millennium the laity must get used to being asked for their views, says Bishop John Arnold I sit a perennial......

Resolutions I Won’t Keep
Page 16 from 2nd January 2009Stuart Reid Charterhouse D o Catholics make New Year’s resolutions? I suppose so, but it seems rather pagan. A Catholic does not wait for the New......

A Bbc Antidote To Mel Gibson
Page 12 from 14th March 2008The Passion BBC ONE, HOLY WEEK W hen will people learn that regional accents do not work in films set in the ancient world? There should be a......