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November 06, 2023

Jordan Peterson is right: reason is dead and humanity is suffering as a result

November 06, 2023

An often-heard complaint is that people no longer know how to reason, debate or communicate successfully. Jordan Peterson has deplored this state of affairs in best-selling self-help books. He continually urges his audience to read Nietzsche as a way of understanding the nihilism which engulfs society in the 21st century. While approvingly citing Nietzsche’s dictum that “truth

Letter from the Editor: Assisi, the Synod, and Israel-Palestine

November 06, 2023

While Pope Francis opened the Synod on Synodality in Rome on St Francis’s feast day, I was some 80 dusty miles away, co-leading, with Mgr Keith Newton and our guide James Jeffrey (see his ‘Life & Soul’ Asissi Diary) our latest Herald pilgrimage along the Way of St Francis. Over the course of 70 miles

Feast and fast: Delicious autumnal treats with ham and cabbage

November 06, 2023

Sam Marsden finds some delicious things that can be done with a slice of ham and the humble cabbage. In the supermarket chiller cabinet, adjacent to the sliced boiled ham, roast beef, etc, you will these days also find packs of Parma ham from Italy and Serrano ham from Spain – both so thinly sliced

German bishop authorises same-sex blessings in diocese

November 06, 2023

A German bishop issued a letter last Thursday in which he asked pastors in his diocese to bless same-sex couples. Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann wrote to priests, deacons and lay pastoral workers saying that the blessings — which he also extended to remarried couples — could take place in churches in the Diocese of Speyer. “The

Pope speaks with Iran president, confirms call for ceasefire

November 06, 2023

ROME –Pope Francis spoke by phone with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday about the situation in Gaza, marking the latest such call with international leaders focused on ensuring access to humanitarian aid and pursuing ceasefire efforts. The call, confirmed by Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni on Vatican News, the Vatican’s formal state-run media platform, took

Cardinal Nichols praises new National Tribunal for managing clerical sex abuse cases

November 06, 2023

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – President of the England and Wales Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said Saturday was a “most significant day in the life of the Church in England and Wales, and indeed for the Church more widely” due to the creation a new National Tribunal to apply the church’s criminal law. Nichols called