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September 19, 2023

‘Lethal paternalism’: why the case of ‘ST’ is so deeply disturbing

September 19, 2023

It is hard to imagine something more chilling than knowing your doctors want to withdraw the treatment that is keeping you alive. Yet that is exactly what has happened to a nineteen-year-old woman, ST, who died on Tuesday 12 September. As ST’s doctors had decided that her condition was hopeless, they asked the Court of

Rupnik centre gets ‘clean bill of health’ from Diocese of Rome with doubts raised over excommunication

September 19, 2023

ROME – Despite being expelled in July from his Jesuit order over charges of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse, famed Slovenian artist Father Marko Rupnik’s base of operations in Rome has drawn a clean bill of health from the pope’s diocese, which praised his Centro Aletti for fostering “a healthy community life free of particular

Condemning Russell Brand will not change the warped culture of relativism which created him

September 19, 2023

It’s presumptuous of me to begin by quibbling with Shakespeare, but he’s dead and I’m feeling a bit kicky this morning. “What’s in a name?” his Juliet asks, “A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” To this I say, “Juliet. Woman to woman, don’t kid yourself, a Rose by any other name is not