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Another profession closed to Christians?
November 16, 2017
Felix Ngole was thrown off his social work course because of his beliefs on marriage. The message for Christians is stark
Another profession closed to Christians?
November 16, 2017
Felix Ngole is a Christian who was thrown off a social work course at Sheffield University because he wrote on Facebook in 2015 that he supported the Kentucky registrar who had refused to handle gay marriages and provided a link to a biblical quotation. He lost an appeal that his rights to freedom of speech
Praying for your enemies isn’t enough
October 19, 2017
Student leaders at Balliol College banned the university’s Christian Union from its Freshers’ Fair on the grounds that the Christian religion promotes homophobia and neo-colonialism. The decision has been widely attacked, rightly, on the grounds of free speech but not, as it should also have been, on the grounds that it is an act both
What Catholic tourists need
September 14, 2017
The buckets and spades season is over, suitcases are unpacked, souvenirs put away and postcards read. Was it really only a few weeks ago that I was changing currency, checking my passport and wondering where I might find Mass on the Rhine? I was on a river cruise and we were due to wake up
Dear bishops: let us keep our parish priests
August 17, 2017
The seven Catholic priests who walked into a bar and were initially turned away by staff, who thought they were members of a stag party, have done more for the image of the Church than a hundred popes. Here were seven perfectly normal blokes, fond of beer, celebrating the beginning of a life of dirt-poor
The frightening power of mass hatred
July 20, 2017
The Lord loveth not a lynch mob. OK, that doesn’t actually appear anywhere in Scripture but it is implicit, from the woman who would have been stoned had not Christ shamed her accusers, to the mob baying for Barabbas, to the crowd cheering on the stoning of St Stephen. Going further back there was the
To stop terror, imams must preach damnation
June 15, 2017
At least this time we heard from the imams, who appeared on television to condemn the terrorism. Too often they are nationally silent, even though most people will tell you that there are always local togetherness events following any major atrocity. However, their role is bigger merely than condemning. It is bigger even than trying
The Inquisition, minus the torture
May 18, 2017
First it was Tim Farron and then Andrew Turner. There are a few trifling things for the world to worry about, such as the war in Syria, starvation in East Africa, or maybe even a lunatic with his finger on the nuclear button in North Korea. But the first week of the election campaign was
How the media marginalised Good Friday
April 20, 2017
I am writing this on Maundy Thursday. Tomorrow is the most solemn day of the Christian Year, a day which commemorates appalling suffering and sacrifice, and this is a Christian country, built on Christian heritage, shaped by the Church. Yet it would appear that this is just another bank holiday. Shops are open, special attractions
Why is the Home Office turning priests away?
March 16, 2017
St Anselm’s has been driven out by the Government’s failure to grasp religious life
Why is the Home Office turning priests away?
March 16, 2017
A Catholic MP, Carol Monaghan, appeared at a committee meeting on Ash Wednesday with a cross on her forehead. She had, of course, been to Mass and in common with thousands of other Catholics that day, including me, had received the ashes. My reaction when I saw it was to admire the precision of her
Looking back at a tragic misjudgment
February 16, 2017
Andrew Watson, the Anglican Bishop of Guildford, must be a pretty remarkable chap. He was among those young people at a Christian holiday camp in the late 1970s and early 1980s who have now spoken out about enduring brutal beatings from John Smyth, now a retired QC. These terrible assaults were apparently supposed to help
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