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Commonplace Book For Passions
Page 10 from 14th September 1990DO you keep a commonplace book? Every worthwhile heroine of Victorian literature recorded great thoughts, scraps of poetry, the sentiments of......

Prelates Are Poles Apart
Page 10 from 20th September 1991How an honourable scholar was cheated of the Papacy THERE has been recently a successful reunion of the old girls of a once famous and respected......

Insidious Messages On Screen
Page 6 from 16th April 1999Mary Kenny T rounds ARE two films doing the unds at the moment that are instructive examples of the power of propaganda in art. One is the......

A Saint Just Like The Rest Of Us
Page 6 from 11th January 1991Thy Will Be Done: A Spirit Portrait of Terence Cardinal Cooke by Benedict Groeschel and Terence Weber (Alba House, New York, $16.95) nugn Lavery......

Susan Lester Embarks On A Nationwide Search For Historic...
Page 8 from 17th July 1992Treasure hunt through Britain for the Catholics of times past HISTORICAL houses should Ideally be visited as points of social, political, economic......

Charterhouse Chronicle
Page 12 from 28th October 1994BY GERARD NOEL. A contrasting tale of two cardinals LAST WEEK IN Rome in connection with the anniversaries of two English Cardinals a series of......

Barbecue Burghers
Page 7 from 18th November 1994Joe McLoughlin visits Lewes to watch them burn an effigy of Pope Paul V HIS HOLINESS DIDN'T LOOK well as he swayed along the narrow streets. Upset......

'adolf Hitler In Doublet And Hose'
Page 6 from 13th June 1997Despite his ghastly reputation, Philip of Spain was really an all-round regular king, says CHRISTOPHER HAIGH Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen, Yale......

At The Heart Of The "old Religion"
Page 7 from 13th October 1995In the third excerpt from The Catholics and their Houses, Peter Stanford and Leanda de Lisle delve into the history behind Grace Dieu Manor,......

A Faith For All Seasons
Page 10 from 8th October 1999Christianity revisited David Torkington OBODY could work out why I shone at history and was dull at everything else. Neither nature nor nurture......