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Hilaire Belloc’s masterful ‘The Cruise of the Nona’ invites us to navigate life’s mysteries

March 30, 2024

“I am now off to sail the English seas again, and to pursue from thought to thought and from memory to memory such things as have occupied one human soul, and of these some will be of profit to one man and some to another, and most, I suppose, to none at all.“ So writes

New book on forgiveness through literature gives Catholics much to ponder

January 03, 2023

A new book exploring forgiveness through contemporary literature gives Nick Ripatrazone much to ponder

A tale for our times

August 12, 2022

The novel has a reputation as an enigmatic curiosity. Yet its pertinence is obvious for our time, given our preoccupation with questions of race and colonialism

Catholics invited to make pilgrimage in Dante’s footsteps in anniversary year

November 11, 2021

Ravenna, Italy, Nov 11, 2021 / 04:20 am The poet Dante famously traveled through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in his masterpiece the “Divine Comedy.” Now, Catholics have a chance to follow in his footsteps — his earthly ones, that is. Dante’s Walk is a 235-mile route that takes pilgrims from the Byzantine splendor of the city

Holy fool of letters

July 01, 2021

Theo Hobson explores the glorious earnestness and bold religious vision of DH Lawrence

Dial M for Murder

July 01, 2021

"This is a delightful soufflé of a book, puffed up and bursting with wit and attitude" writes Daisy Goodwin

All Ireland that Froze for Want of Europe

May 02, 2021

A long read by Michael Duggan on the Irish novelist, Francis MacManus, who "could write about the Catholic faith in a way that was tender but committed, welcoming 'the winds and rains of grace which blow from eternity through the gates of the sacraments upon the human creatures of this narrow world'."

Reading, writing, rebellion

April 01, 2021

For a century, modern Irish Catholic writers have pushed against their faith  – and yet drawn on it, too