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Europe is getting more secular – with some striking exceptions
September 4, 2020
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‘People are looking for something to believe’: An interview with Larry Siedentop
September 4, 2020
For the political philosopher Larry Siedentop, “the only thing worse than religion is its absence”. And it’s the absence of religion right now that...
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John Hume, the statesman and peacemaker who has died at the age of 83, was for a time a candidate for the priesthood in...
Those Victorian-style prayer cards can be intensely reassuring
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There are half a dozen in front of me as I write – prayer cards, the kind of holy picture that people would once...
Even with all the regulations, it is such a relief to be back at Mass
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Livestreamed Masses have been wonderful. But Catholicism is, after all, a touchy-feely religion
Why is a Conservative government pushing for no-fault divorce?
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The Conservatives are bent on fast-tracking no-fault divorce; you have to wonder, what are the Tories for?
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Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas, 1601. Potsdam Bildergalerie This is the most disconcertingly carnal take on the encounter in the Gospel of John between Christ and...
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The CofE hierarchy rushed to judgment before the full story had emerged. They should have counted to ten
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The humanist ideologies have taken over the culture, and it's not a worldview that welcomes dissent
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If all the hierarchy had condemned the regime, the effects on German Catholics would have been incalculable
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