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Pope Francis in 2024: an overview

April 28, 2024

Pope Francis has written a book called Life: My Story Through History – or, rather, he has collaborated with a journalist, Fabio Marchese Ragona, of the Second World War, he recalled his earliest memories as a little boy being cared for by his grandmother, Rosa; the Holocaust prompts him to recall the sadness of the

How to move beyond shame and act boldly like St Paul

April 28, 2024

St Paul “preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus” according to St Barnabas in today’s first reading (Acts 9:27). But how could St Paul have changed instantly from feeling shame for persecuting the Church to boldness in his preaching? Was there no lingering guilt to dampen his spirit? In the second reading (based

Ampleforth diary: by Peter Roberts

April 28, 2024

When I am out early on Theatre Square in front of Ampleforth’s historic buildings, looking across the beautiful valley on the edge of the North York moors, it is the morning greetings of my pupils that keep me going. Most do not wear coats, despite the spring nip, but their pluck, enthusiasm and inner spirit

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

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