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Pope to address Artificial Intelligence at G7 summit in June
April 27, 2024
ROME – Adding to what was already a busy papal schedule for 2024, the Vatican confirmed Friday that Pope Francis will participate, in person, in a G7 summit scheduled for the southern Italian region of Puglia 13-15 June. According to a statement from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the pope will take part in a
A rallying cry to the Church by one of 20th century’s great intellectual converts: Elizabeth Anscombe’s 1938 letter to the Catholic Herald
April 27, 2024
In 1938, the Catholic Herald invited young Catholics to give an account of their faith. This is an abridged version of what the young philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe wrote in response. 8 July, 1938 OXFORD is so full of people who know what is going to happen to population and trade, and whether war will break
On matters of life and death it’s time academia started taking its responsibilities seriously
April 27, 2024
In March, I watched, online, a crowd of 250 students at Manchester University held back by the police as a small number of their peers left a student union closed-door, pro-life society event. I predicted a well-rehearsed schedule of mania: some pieces in the newspapers; a GB News appearance; finally, a dull and statutory response
Euthanasia in France: President Macron’s strategy on ‘assisted dying’ may well backfire
April 27, 2024
It has been a strange year so far in France. The country is beset by internal problems. Violent crime is soaring, drug traffcking is rife, the economy is stalling, the country’s debts mounting and the farmers revolting. Yet these all seem secondary issues for President Emmanuel Macron. His focus is societal. First, his government inscribed
Visiting the domain of an antipope: the Palmarian pontiff
April 26, 2024
The centuries that followed the Reformation, whether consequentially or coincidentally, saw an end to serious contenders to the Papacy. The era of the antipope appeared to be at an end. Since antipope Felix V, challengers have dwindled to the point of extinction. However, I recently learned that a short drive away from my apartment in
You can’t police belief but the State still tries to control our thoughts and values
April 26, 2024
Scotland’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Act is part of a trend in the Western world for the State to police our thoughts and values. Designed to eradicate prejudice against groups who have historically suffered discrimination, and motivated by the new focus on gender identity, Scotland’s new law, and those like it, are ostensibly
Will the abortion issue decide US election?
April 26, 2024
Three out of five Americans profess a Christian faith. Most of them, numbering about 140 million, or 42 per cent of the US population, belong to Protestant denominations, of which the largest group is the 16 million Southern Baptists. The largest single Christian group, however, amounting to about one in five Americans, is the 70
Catholic voice of calm conservatism: Cardinal Müller attempts to bring order out of the chaos
April 26, 2024
Now that the dust has settled on last week’s controversial National Conservatism (NatCon) conference in Brussels, there is a chance to reflect on its impact at (and even on) the heart of Europe. The gathering of leading conservative academics and politicians, including Suella Braverman MP, Nigel Farage, and renowned public figures such as Cardinal Gerhard Müller,
Archdiocese of Birmingham gets two new Auxiliary Bishops
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis has appointed two new auxiliary bishops to serve the Archdiocese of Birmingham. Monsignor Timothy Menezes, Dean of St Chad’s Cathedral, and Canon Richard Walker, Vicar General, will serve the Archdiocese of Birmingham as auxiliary bishops, notes the archdiocese’s website. The role of an auxiliary bishop is to assist the diocesan bishop in the
UK government’s funding spree for overseas abortions continues apace
April 26, 2024
The UK Government has announced that £12million pounds of taxpayers’ money is to go to a programme run by an organisation that aims to “expand access” to abortion in Tanzania over the next two years. It comes against a backdrop in which funding for overseas abortions has been a continued theme of the UK Government
Four German bishops opt out of controversial ‘Synodal Council’
April 26, 2024
Amid an ongoing back and forth between the Vatican and the German bishops conference over a controversial new ecclesial body, four of the nation’s prelates have refused to participate in Germany’s national synodal process, opting instead to wait for direction from Rome. The planning process of the Church in Germany, referred to as the “synodal
Despite Tate Modern’s best efforts the Christian impulses of ‘The Blue Rider’ Expressionists shine through
April 25, 2024
The Blue Rider – Der Blaue Reiter – was the name of a group, an almanac and an artistic movement, all of them centred round the remarkable figure of Wassily Kandinsky in the years just before the First World War. He and the Bavarian Franz Marc together edited the almanac with a Blue Rider on
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