A very good novel can make a Mexican bus journey pass very quickly
Authors
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Alexander Lucie-Smith is a Catholic priest and a doctor of moral theology. On Twitter he is @ALucieSmith
Despite reports of violence, I feel totally safe walking around Mexico
Tuesday, 7 February 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, 30 January 2012
In the history books, though, the conflict rages on
We ought to applaud ‘real-life superheroes’
Thursday, 26 January 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, 23 January 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, 20 January 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, 19 January 2012
Presenter Thomas Asbridge confronts the brutality of the Crusades without lapsing into polemic
Labour’s treatment of Catholics has doomed the Union
Friday, 13 January 2012
The United Kingdom looks doomed, but much blame must be placed on Labour’s alienation of its natural constituency north of the border
The faith of Mexicans is profoundly moving
The kingdom of saints is real to the people of this country