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- Sep 28, 2026
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Can we believe our ancestors’ tales of the supernatural? (opens the original)
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Malcolm Gaskill’s Worlds of Fear and Wonder (Profile, £12.99) is a collection of beguilingly multifarious essays on “living with the supernatural, past and present”. His intention, in addressing anything from witches to levitating saints, Puritanism to Spiritualism, is to jolt us out of our complacency, our unquestioned assumption that we are very different from, very superior to our benighted ancestors. In many ways, he suggests they were in fact more shrewd, more sensible, than we give them cr
Champion against the powers of evil (opens the original)
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Devotion to St Michael the Archangel is less obvious in the contemporary church than it once was – part of a shift in our relations with the saints generally – but there is a prayer that is still widely used among Catholics of a traditionalist bent. JD Vance, the US vice-president, recalled it in his recent book on conversion: “St Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defence against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray and do thou, O Prince of
The vanished Christianity of Diana’s world (opens the original)
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Swan Song: Diana, my sister, by Charles Spencer (384pp, Penguin Michael Joseph, £28.00) There is an interesting little episode in Swan Song, Charles Spencer’s book about his sister, Princess Diana, and it took place before her funeral. He writes: “I felt the need to salute Diana, out of love and respect. I crossed myself – a gesture I had never made before, but it struck me, at that moment, as a suitable symbol of deference to my sister.” It was an unusual thing for an Anglican like Spencer to d
How JD Vance became a Catholic (opens the original)
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Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, by JD Vance (304pp, William Collins, £19) JD Vance's memoir is subtitled Finding My Way Back to Faith – but the faith to which he returns is not the one he abandoned. His turn to atheism came while serving as a communications officer with the Marines in Iraq, after he had become alienated from the Evangelical churches of his childhood. His beloved grandmother, Mamaw, with whom he had his closest childhood bond, had a personal relationship with Jesus, thou
‘She would have been brave to the end’ (opens the original)
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Ann Widdecombe’s death was shock enough – even at 78, I had thought she might last longer, tough bird that she was – but her murder is one of those events that rocks the nation. I knew her a little, on the back of a lunch here, an encounter there (one with the other murdered Catholic parliamentarian, David Amess), but when I reviewed her memoir in the Standard, she wrote to thank me for my observations. The book has long disappeared but one line in it stays in my memory: she said that as a singl
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