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June 14, 2023

Michael White finds the perfect setting for Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Some years ago I went to Warsaw to meet Henryk Górecki, who had been one of the many creditable modernist composers functioning in Poland in the later 20th century and would have remained so but for the fact that he abandoned modernism, discovered

RIP Berlusconi, Europe’s first modern populist leader

June 14, 2023

(ROME) Silvio Berlusconi was given the very rare honour of a state funeral today (Wednesday) in the Duomo of his beloved Milan. Outside the cathedral, thousands gathered in the piazza to watch the service, presided over by the Archbishop of Milan Mario Delpini, on huge television screens. Il Cavaliere (The Knight), as they called him,

The abortion lobby is to blame for baby Lily Foster’s death

June 14, 2023

Anyone still doubting whether slopes are in fact slippery either hasn’t been for a walk around Colley Hill in February or has failed to notice the response this week to a 44-year-old woman jailed for taking abortion pills to kill her unborn baby at 32-34 weeks pregnant. The proverbial camel’s nose went under the tent in

Pope Francis appoints Stephen Wright as next Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle

June 14, 2023

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Stephen Wright to be the next Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. Bishop Wright, 52, who has until now served as an auxiliary bishop of Birmingham, worked as a lawyer before his ordination and is Chairman of CAFOD’s trustees. He succeeds Bishop Robert Byrne, who resigned in December 2022 after just

Ireland’s proposed hate speech laws are chillingly vague and ill-defined

June 14, 2023

This week the Irish Senate (Seanad) will commence a futile debate which is unlikely to amend the proposed legislation on hate speech and hate crimes that has already passed through the lower house of the Government with barely a ripple. The proposed addition to the Irish Statute book, the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred