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Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Alexander Lucie-Smith is a Catholic priest and a doctor of moral theology. The author of several books, he was born in West Sussex, educated at Oxford and in Rome, and has lived in Malta, Italy, and Kenya

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• Dickens is disappointingly thin – give me AN Wilson anytime

  Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

  A very good novel can make a Mexican bus journey pass very quickly

• Despite reports of violence, I feel totally safe walking around Mexico

  Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

  Some 50,000 people have been killed in the war on drugs, and yet the country will survive this calamity as it has survived others

• At last I can start to understand the American Civil War

  Monday, January 30th, 2012

  In the history books, though, the conflict rages on

• We ought to applaud ‘real-life superheroes’

  Thursday, January 26th, 2012

  Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith says that Catholic teaching offers support to the self-styled superheroes fighting crime from Yeovil to Seattle

• Taking drugs should be legal but discouraged in the same way as smoking

  Monday, January 23rd, 2012

  The war on drugs hasn’t worked. Cigarette smoking, on the other hand, has declined steadily since the Second World War

• How Catholic was Puccini?

  Friday, January 20th, 2012

  A new, Freudian study suggests the composer’s Catholicism was skin deep

• Believe it or not, the new BBC series on the Crusades is excellent

  Thursday, January 19th, 2012

  Presenter Thomas Asbridge confronts the brutality of the Crusades without lapsing into polemic

• No one has the right to occupy the Vatican

  Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

  The police’s zero tolerance policy on demonstrations in St Peter’s Square is the only one possible

• Labour’s treatment of Catholics has doomed the Union

  Friday, January 13th, 2012

  The United Kingdom looks doomed, but much blame must be placed on Labour’s alienation of its natural constituency north of the border

• As long as murders go unpunished Africa will never have political reform

  Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

  We must never forget Fr John Kaiser, the missionary who died in Kenya in mysterious circumstances