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March 28, 2023
A woman’s place? Better catechesis needed as Cambridge conference discusses women’s ordination
March 28, 2023
As the Margaret Beaufort Institute in Cambridge hosts a new conference on women and the diaconate, some still say there is enough evidence in history to ordain women, at least to the diaconate. For others, irrespective of history or Catholic theology, it is more simply about equality or justice towards women today. What is evident
Adam Dant tours the artistic riches of Florence
March 28, 2023
If the Medici had their way, today’s Easter faithful might be processing not in the direction of Jerusalem or to St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, but towards Florence, former home of this fantastically wealthy Italian banking dynasty. The Medici family’s plan in the 16th century to move the tomb of Christ all the way from
How to properly encounter beauty, truth and goodness
March 28, 2023
Easter Monday will be my 40th birthday. Inevitably, reaching such milestones is liable to induce a certain amount of reflection on what one has made of life so far, and what still remains to be done. I don’t think I have anything remarkable to add to such a well-worn subject. However, as I reach what
It would have been better if Summorum Pontificum had been left alone
March 28, 2023
On February 21, the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, headed by prefect Cardinal Arthur Roche, issued a rescript, empowering Cardinal Roche with absolute and arbitrary power to grant or deny exceptions to Pope Francis’s 2021 motu proprio letter, Traditionis Custodes, which severely restricts celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).
Why the synod process will eventually fail
March 28, 2023
Early this month, a colloquium was held at Boston College called “The Way Forward: Pope Francis, Vatican II and Synodality”. The gathering was the second meeting of this particular group of 80 participants to discuss synodality, the amorphous call by Pope Francis for the Church to “walk together”, to continue the reception of Vatican II.
Ed Feser and not bending to the spirit of the age
March 28, 2023
In the 1990s it seemed de rigueur to ask the question “Which five people would you invite to your dream dinner party?” My answer then would leave me stuck talking with a bunch of 1990s navel-gazers now! Not only would I most certainly swap Morrissey for Ed Feser today, but he would also appear on
Tony Harding: Reaping the wisdom of nearly 70 years of priesthood
March 28, 2023
To Bath on a Sunday evening, to JA Hansom’s magnificent church of St John the Evangelist, just around the corner from the station on South Parade. A journey made many times before, but never for the lively student Mass at 6.30 – which seems quite a sensible time in a busy university city. I wasn’t
New report on end-of-life care exposes euthanasia by another name
March 28, 2023
As a physician who has followed the issue of “end of life” pathways closely over the last 15 years, the contents of the report “When End-of-Life Care Goes Wrong” (WELCGW) – published on March 2 by the UK Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group – are not a surprise. However, they are tangible
Diary: by Sarah Sands
March 28, 2023
One of the great novels on sickness and death is Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. I have been reading it because of a Norfolk-based interest in the Hanseatic League – his novels are set in German Hansa territory – and because of an unwelcome recent knowledge of death. My brother, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, died suddenly in
God and politics: Kate Forbes and Ron DeSantis
March 28, 2023
Nothing could better illustrate the difference between American elections and those in Britain – specifically Scotland – than the plight of Kate Forbes, a candidate to lead the Scottish National Party. Ms Forbes encountered more than the usual challenges in seeking to become Scotland’s First Minister. She is a member of the Free Church of
SNP elects leader committed to legalising abortion up to birth
March 28, 2023
Scottish nationalists have selected a politician committed to legalising abortion up to birth as the leader of the country’s governing party. Humza Yousaf, a Muslim of Pakistani origin, is the new First Minister of the Scottish National Party, replacing Nicola Sturgeon who resigned in February amid controversy over her policies to allow people to change
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