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December 04, 2023

Christian families could be forced from foster care system in US

December 04, 2023

Christians could be forced from the foster care system in the United States if President Joe Biden presses ahead with a new rule to override their consciences, a group of Republican attorneys general has said. The Democrat President is threatening to remove any faith-based provider of foster care unless they accept government instructions on accommodating

Louis XVI and the Christmas commitment of a Catholic king

December 04, 2023

Louis XVI’s Last Will and Testament is one of the most overlooked exhortations of the Christian faith – and of the possible graces afforded by kingship, says George Young. On The Genius of Christianity (1802), François-René de Chateaubriand wrote that “when God placed man in this region of tempests, he impressed on him a mark

Was 2023 the worst year for Christian persecution?

December 04, 2023

John Newton and John Pontifex describe the intimidation and murder of Christians in Pakistan, India, Nigeria and other countries. “Christians are always wondering where and when the next attack will come,” said the priest. We listened intently as Fr Abid Tanveer, who lived through the worst attack on Pakistan’s Christians in a decade, described the

Catholic schools need to be much more careful when promoting secular ‘mental health’ resources

December 04, 2023

Earlier this year, you may recall seeing this rather disturbing headline, “Teacher told to apologise for addressing a classroom of female pupils, ‘girls’.” As the teacher involved explained at the time, “I was ordered to apologise to a Year 7 class at my private girls’ school — for addressing them as ‘girls’. I was told by

Expert says church is ‘waking up’ to climate crisis under Pope Francis

December 04, 2023

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – A leading Catholic expert on the environment has said that under Pope Francis’ leadership, “the whole church is waking up” to the climate crisis. “It feels like Pope Francis is acting as a barometer for climate action,” said Neil Thorns, Director of Advocacy and Communications at CAFOD, the overseas development arm

Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ manages the impressive feat of turning a ‘great man’ of history into an entirely uninteresting character

December 04, 2023

A sadly common feature of human beings is our ability to take something great and reduce it to something tawdry. Think of the wonder of air travel and our typical experience of airports. Think of the incomparable sacrifice of the Catholic Mass and the tawdry and commonplace ways in which it is all too often