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January 27, 2022

Coronavirus restrictions scrapped in churches after nearly two years

January 27, 2022

Restrictions brought in halt the spread of Covid-19 have been scrapped in churches throughout England and Wales after nearly two years. The wearing of masks inside churches is optional rather than compulsory and there will be no social distancing. The use of shared hymn books has resumed, the sign of peace reintroduced and holy water

Legal Notebook

January 27, 2022

In December, an ex-police officer called Harry Miller won a legal challenge against a national policy permitting forces to record gender-critical views as non-crime “hate incidents”. A brief analysis of the decision and its legal framework may be helpful, particularly to Roman Catholics whose beliefs on a number of moral issues may not conform with

When right becomes duty

January 27, 2022

Simon Caldwell is horrified by how far ‘assisted dying’ has shifted from putting the terminally ill first

Wisdom of the elders

January 27, 2022

In Stories of a Generation, Pope Francis and others share moving tales of struggle and courage.

Diary: Finding the right church in the Big Apple

January 27, 2022

I had never lived in New York City before I moved to Manhattan in 2018. It was daunting to come as a fully formed adult with a 14-year-old child in tow. We came for one reason: my French son had won a scholarship to a prestigious, old-world boys’ school founded by a Rockefeller in 1888.

On pilgrimage with Tom Holland

January 27, 2022

Where would you go? I’ve done the Camino to Santiago and I’ve always wanted to go to Rome (the Via Francigena). I’d been vaguely thinking next year would be good because it’s the 900th anniversary of the Priory of the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew, which is said to have been founded by Rahere, reputedly the

Pope’s gift for publicity has its dangers

January 27, 2022

Pope Francis has done it again. He has got himself into the news – on social media – by turning up at a record shop in Rome to spend 10 minutes browsing among the LPs like a normal citizen. As teenagers are keenly aware, vinyl is very much of the moment, so the Pope is

Crisis of disunity threatens German Church

January 27, 2022

In his fascinating interview with Karl Gustel Wärnberg in this issue, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has identified important fault lines within the Church in Germany. In particular, he has expressed his concern about the direction of what is called the Synodal Way. His concerns are