Donald Trump is WEAK on Catholicism
Despite Maga’s proud Catholicism, Trump’s Messiah complex is driving him into a Papal feud
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Tucker Carlson’s annunciation
In his wild demagogy, Carlson is the prince of the new America
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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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Conclave: this papal power struggle is high entertainment
Ralph Fiennes gives an all-time best performance in this sumptuous, thrilling drama about appointing a new pope.
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Intermezzo’s God complex
Religion has made Sally Rooney boring.
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The “Catholic vote” is powerful, considering it doesn’t really exist
The Church’s ability to bring partisans together in a polarised nation is indispensable.
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Whatever happened to the language of peace?
Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.
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How a radical priest forged my politics
Gustavo Gutiérrez’s revelatory book showed me that faith and economics could not be separated.
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Obedience, disobedience and the demands of the Catholic Church
I find the blind faith of religion unthinkable. Then I remember my servility in love.
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The witchcraft generation
Gen Z is swapping traditional faiths for magic spells.
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England will always get Sinéad O’Connor wrong
Only Ireland could have produced a protest singer like her.
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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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