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February 09, 2023

Priest charged over free speech protest outside abortion clinic

February 09, 2023

(Fr Sean Gough was charged with ‘intimidating service users’ | ADF) Police charged a Catholic priest after he held up a sign with the words “praying for free speech” outside a closed abortion facility in Birmingham. The Crown Prosecution Service later threw out the charges against Fr Sean Gough but warned him they could be

The problem with a ‘gender-neutral’ God

February 09, 2023

The Church of England Bishops, we are told, are going to debate whether God should be gender neutral, and thus not referred to as “He” or “father”. Among items on the agenda within the debate is the proposal to remove the word “father” from the Lord’s Prayer, for example. How much do these CofE bishops have

Tár: Cate Blanchett deserves an Oscar for her role in this disturbing and divisive new film

February 09, 2023

Todd Field’s first film for sixteen years, Tár – starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, an American superstar composer-conductor – has divided audiences for reasons that slowly but subtly reveal themselves as the film progresses. To begin with we see Tár in all her carefully constructed professional and intellectual glory. A protégée of Leonard Bernstein, she twinkles