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It used to be said by Catholic priests back in the 1950s that the Devil was delighted when human beings decided that he did not exist. In those days it [...]

My belief in God is not philosophical. It is not rooted in metaphysics or reason. It springs from the heart and the senses. It is practical. Every Sunday I attend [...]

New York Thirty years ago this week, on 17 October 1973 to be exact, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries raised the price of nil to $5 from $3 a [...]

It is widely agreed that 9/11 had a silver lining: that frightening day prodded us into thinking about religion, into taking it seriously. It nudged us away from our embarrassed [...]

Let's start with the bad news: in honour of China's economic rise, a Chinese-looking woman was the first Christmas Grinch here in the States. The sourpuss teacher in upper New [...]

Readers familiar with Idomeneo might have shared my pleasure (and bemusement) at a performance of Mozart's early opera at the Coliseum in London last week. The English National Opera production, [...]

Just over a year ago I told a lie. In print. In this magazine. I was one of those asked by The Spectator last Christmas whether I believed in the [...]

God must have an extremely thick skin. I do hope so anyway. I just had a shocking insight into the sort of thing He probably has to put up with [...]

There isn't enough dialogue between Islam and other faiths, so when invited to address the admirable Three Faiths Forum, chaired by Sir Sigmund Sternberg, I happily agreed, and went to [...]

As we crossed over the escarpment at the Mount of Joy--traditionally the place where pilgrims caught their first glimpse of the spires of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, but [...]

The chances are that if you're nearing 30, you have begun to feel the itch of dissatisfaction. You've struggled to find the perfect profession, job, partner and home, but have [...]

They had dined well and were warming their Armagnac. From the inclination of the ebony cigarette-holder, Charles Morse could deduce that his host was in didactic mode, and it was [...]

Anglicans in the United States believe it is a good idea for bishops to express their homosexual preferences genitally with long-stay companions. Some people will believe anything. Others find it [...]

There is a joke in the Jewish community about a typical Jewish mother who travels to a remote Buddhist temple in Nepal. Eventually granted an audience with the revered guru [...]