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Melanie McDonagh

Searching for meaning
May 01, 2021
Melanie McDonagh reviews The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, by Sohrab Ahmari
Hungary’s family values
April 01, 2021
Generous benefits for married couples and subsidised child care are helping to reverse population decline
The pursuit of truth, not bells and smells
March 01, 2021
The appeal of the Catholic Church to converts goes far beyond aesthetics, says Melanie McDonagh
Getting Sin Right
January 18, 2021
Honest depictions of misdeeds and their repercussions happen so rarely, but the National Gallery got it right, says Melanie McDonagh
Save the unicorn
December 29, 2020
Underlying the medieval images of courtly love featuring unicorns we find Christ and his mother.
How encyclicals became a mini-industry
November 26, 2020
Even before we had the benefit of the Pope’s views on civil unions, we had a new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, which was an opportunity for him to opine about the subjects close to him – openness to migrants and hostility to nationalism, for instance. However, it ended up as the occasion for a terrific fuss
BMA survey shows shifting ideas on assisted suicide
October 08, 2020
59 per cent of those responding said they support changing the law to allow terminally ill and incurably suffering adults the option of a legal assisted death.
The National Gallery’s surprisingly orthodox exhibition on sin
October 07, 2020
The exhibition explains the Christian concept of sin and salvation to an audience that may never have heard it before
‘I was beyond being damaged’: An interview with philosopher John Finnis
September 29, 2020
John Finnis looks back on a public storm - and on his lifetime studying philosophy, law and Catholic teaching
Europe is getting more secular – with some striking exceptions
September 04, 2020
The Global God Divide is the Pew Research Foundation’s new report on religion. Most of us, without reading a word of it, would probably guess quite correctly what it says. Europeans, and people in related Anglophone countries (Canada and Australia) are less religious than anywhere else. Poorer countries care more about God than rich ones.
‘People are looking for something to believe’: An interview with Larry Siedentop
September 04, 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 concerns him: specifically any understanding of Christianity. Because for him – and this is the argument of his most celebrated book, Inventing the Individual – it is Christianity that has formed
Obituary: John Hume, a Nobel winner shaped by Catholicism
September 04, 2020
John Hume, the statesman and peacemaker who has died at the age of 83, was for a time a candidate for the priesthood in Maynooth seminary. He left, and subsequently married Pat Hone, but in the words of his political colleague Seamus Mallon, there was “a tinge of a cleric about him”. Mallon was referring
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