Never studied Latin? Well, David Daintree* writes, you probably know more Latin already than you think you do. [Read more...]

Martin Mosebach and others appeal to Benedict XVI about the state of the sacred arts and music in the Church. Sandro Magister of L’Espresso reports. [Read more...]

This story is set in Paris. But it begins far away across the other side of the world in an unknown place among an unheard of people in a country village of not much more than 200 souls. [Read more...]

R. J. Stove reports on a visit to Liège in eastern Belgium.

Connoisseurs of Belgian railway station architecture (and you all know who you are) will doubtless have a special place in their hearts, or at least in their viscera, for the monstrosity that since August 2009 has functioned as Liège’s train terminus. This steel-and- glass eyesore – which resembles nothing so much as the brainchild of a blindfolded terrorist who abandoned his Sydney Opera House imitation halfway through, in favour of some serious acid-dreaming – is all the more offensive because of how abundant the pleasantly pre- modern buildings are elsewhere in the city centre. Hard though it is to believe now, Liège used to be an economic powerhouse; and it looked the part. [Read more...]