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August 15, 2022

Anthony Scaramucci – from the Trump White House to the Crypto Market

August 15, 2022

You might remember him as President Trump’s Director of Communications who was sacked after 11 days in the White House. But “The Mooch” has owned his mistakes and reinvented his business in the spirit of a true entrepreneur, and, as it happens, a practising Catholic. I spoke to him about finance, his new ventures, his

Rushdie attack reminds Catholics they must always accept dissent

August 15, 2022

The attack on Sir Salman Rushdie last Friday was perhaps the culmination of a decades-long struggle between the author and prohibition on freedom of speech, a fight the Indian-born novelist never, in fact, picked. It started with Sir Salman’s book – The Satanic Verses – for which Iran’s then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued the author

Did courageous Nicaraguans force the Vatican’s hand?

August 15, 2022

Not before time, the Holy See has spoken up about the situation in Nicaragua. As the Catholic Herald reported, the government of Nicaragua recently ordered the closure of seven Catholic radio stations linked to a bishop who has been critical of President Daniel Ortega – Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, whose future remains in the balance, having