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A ‘Beer Bible’ for South Africa

THE BEER BOOK, by Holger Meier. The Frog Trust, 2014. 303 pp. Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher For centuries, brewing beer […]

Over the past few months the TV series A.D. The Bible Continues, a sequel to last year’s popular The Bible, was broadcast

What did Jesus look like? The gospels give us no physical description of the Son of God. GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER looks

Following the main portion of the Palm Sunday Gospel reading of Christ’s Passion from Mark 14-15, illustrated with photos from the

The basilica of St Anthony of Padua is the biggest Catholic church in Istanbul. GUNTHER SIMMERMACHER writes about the basilica where

Munich is a metropole in which cultures meet — but the Catholic history of the city is ever-present, GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER

Nowhere in Germany does the Catholic faith live as strongly as it does in Bavaria, as GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER explains.

TEN AFRICAN CARDINALS, by Sally Ninham. Connor Court Publishing, Australia. 2013. 367pp Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher The Catholic Church has

It was the year in which Pope Francis called an extraordinary Synod on the Family, two popes were canonised and