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Hilaire Belloc’s masterful ‘The Cruise of the Nona’ invites us to navigate life’s mysteries

March 30, 2024

“I am now off to sail the English seas again, and to pursue from thought to thought and from memory to memory such things as have occupied one human soul, and of these some will be of profit to one man and some to another, and most, I suppose, to none at all.“ So writes

Are young scientists changing their minds about God?

December 13, 2023

Contrary to the prevalent notion that science stands at odds with religion, younger scientists are more open to the concept of a higher spiritual reality, according to a new book. In “Science at the Doorstep To God: Science and Reason in Support of God, the Soul, and Life After Death,” Father Robert Spitzer, president and

Liberalism’s dusk has descended

June 07, 2023

James Orr on national conservatism and social regeneration. Bien-pensant neuralgia over nationhood has intensified of late on the part of British liberals. This is partly because, against all the odds, expressions of national sentiment have begun to puncture the cosy cosmopolitan consensus forged in the aftermath of the Second World War and crystallised in the

US Catholic Leaders of Today 2022: Thought Leaders

October 01, 2022

Our selection of the top Catholic leaders in the realms of philosophy, theology, and ideas in 2022

Do colours exist?

September 23, 2022

A Catholic vision of reality can help us see more than the raw laws of science might suggest

Guns, communion and privatising good

June 28, 2022

Two seemingly unrelated news stories that dominated headlines and social media in the US this spring serve to demonstrate the moral schizophrenia of American moral and political life. Reactions to these stories, among Catholics and non-Catholics alike, serve to demonstrate why so many public questions in the US and other liberal societies resist coherent resolution.

Cutting liberalism down to size

June 28, 2022

Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama Profile Books £16.99, 192 pages The term “liberalism” is a monster that has grown large and confusing tentacles in recent decades. In the US it largely refers to left-of-centre politics, but also inspires libertarianism; in the UK it can refer to capitalist excess and also to progressive individualism

What Pius XII Wanted From the Philosophers

June 13, 2021

Speaking in 1958, Pope Pius XII presses on an international gathering of philosophers the idea that love of the living God helps them do their work, because then they will "take into account all reality." Acceptance of Christian Faith does not solve every philosophical problem. But it does oblige the philosopher to "emerge from his isolation" and places him in a broader universe.