April-June 2008
Volume 13, Number 2 - Contents


 

 No other name (Editorial)

There were no "whingeing Poms" in pre-Reformation England.

 

 A life devoted to plainchant

Dr Mary Berry, CBE, leading expert in Gregorian chant and a Catholic convert, died on 1 May 2008.

 

The prayer pro Judeis

By R. J. Stove

On Benedict XVI's recent move to rewrite the Good Friday prayer for the Jews' conversion: what it entails, and what reactions it has elicited.

 

Flavigny monks in Australia

By Katrina Edwards

Members of a comparatively little known French religious community, in which the Latin Mass is safeguarded, visited this country in November 2007.

 

The jus ad bellum and unconventional warfare

By Fr Ken Webb FSSP

How can irregular forms of combat, such as guerrilla insurgencies, be understood according to just-war criteria?

 

The Cross in the desert

By R. Kenton Craven

The Season of Lent, as experienced in the Sultanate of Oman.

 

 

Music's annals and anecdotes

By Elizabeth Rennick

Reviewing A Student's Guide to Music History, by R. J. Stove.

 

The mortar man at work

By Aniello Iannuzzi

Reviewing God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society, by Cardinal George Pell.

 

The conquest of Babel

By Henry Craft

What are the Old Testament connections to the descent of the Holy Spirit?

 

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