England’s literary Catholic converts
Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene thought it was the “real” faith even when they disliked it
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Martin Scorsese, priest of the silver screen
In his youth, the great auteur wanted to join the Church – but he practised his faith better from the…
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An audience with Austria’s “rebel nuns”
The elderly sisters who defied Church authority are paragons of speaking truth to power
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The talented Mr Douthat
How Ross Douthat made himself liberal America’s favourite right-wing Catholic.
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Ross Douthat: “In the intelligentsia, it’s Catholicism or nothing”
The veteran conservative writer on Christianity and Maga.
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Pope Francis’s divided house
Like the Second Vatican Council, he proved the Church to be as human as it is divine.
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Pope Francis’s illusions
The controversial liberaliser brought humanity to the Vatican – but he was unable to arrest the Catholic Church’s decline.
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The death of the British Catholic novel
Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover.
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The confessions of Pope Francis
Can Hope, his autobiographical meditations on migration, sexuality and war, assuage a Catholic church in crisis?
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Britain’s crisis of unbelief
In a nation that binds spiritual and temporal power, will the end of the old metaphysical order threaten the state…
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Homophobic Christians are undermining their Bible
Immature readings of scripture have become a litmus test for conservatives’ faith.
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How the Christian right is driving the anti-vax movement
Reactionary wings of the Roman Catholic and evangelical churches in the US are fanning the flames of conspiracy theories and…
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