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Dan Hitchens

April 26, 2018
At the centre of the Alfie Evans controversy, which has so absorbed the world’s attention this week, is a human tragedy almost beyond words. As we go to press, the 23-month-old boy is close to death: the ventilator which keeps him alive has been switched off. His parents are making a legal appeal for further
April 21, 2018
On Sunday April 29, more than 10,000 Catholics will gather around Britain's coast to say the rosary
April 19, 2018
What pays for North Korea’s nuclear programme – not to mention Kim Jong-Un’s cars, yachts, 1,000-seat luxury cinema, $1 million annual consumption of alcohol, etc? North Korea’s domestic economy can’t provide this kind of wealth. But as Panorama showed on Monday night (BBC One and iPlayer), there are other possibilities. An estimated 100,000 North Korean
April 11, 2018
The move was opposed by mothers who kept their babies after receiving help from the vigils
April 05, 2018
The New York Times columnist on the marriage debate, the trouble with liberal theology, and his struggle with illness
April 05, 2018
In October 2015, as the Vatican synod on the family reached its acrimonious finale, a debate broke out in the opinion pages of the New York Times. The newspaper’s columnist Ross Douthat had taken a line which provoked a wide range of Catholics. He stated frankly that if the Church allowed Communion for the remarried,
April 04, 2018
The Vatican official criticised the 'myopia' of those making 'continued attacks' on Vatican rapprochement with China
March 28, 2018
A deal with China may involve cutting ties with a state Beijing sees as a rebel province
March 09, 2018
The preparatory committee includes bishops who have entertained some distinctly radical ideas
March 01, 2018
The internet is changing the way people cross the Tiber
March 01, 2018
Not long before his 20th birthday, Antony Byrd decided to put his atheism to the test: “I just started examining my beliefs, on the premise that I could be wrong about anything.” Byrd, who today studies music at the University of Warwickshire, was a fan of Richard Dawkins’s arguments for atheism, so he started watching
February 15, 2018
The cardinal believes reception of Communion depends on 'conscience'. Does his reasoning add up?
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