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January 03, 2024
January 03, 2024
Ridley Scott’s latest historical blockbuster Napoleon whizzes through the emperor’s action-packed life, says Ferdie Rous. In this highly episodic retelling, Ridley Scott slaps up a broad sweeping tableau of Napoleon’s life. From the field of Austerlitz to the burned-out husk of Moscow and the packed hall of Robespierre’s National Convention, we skim through Le Petit
January 03, 2024
Behold, a silly tender Babe In freezing winter night In homely manger trembling lies, Alas, a piteous sight! The inns are full, no man will yield This little pilgrim bed, But forced he is with silly beasts In crib to shroud his head. Despise him not for lying there, First, what he is inquire; An
January 03, 2024
YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – In offering hopes and prayers for a better 2024, the Catholic bishops of Africa delivered a largely searing judgment about the continent’s political leadership during 2023, condemning failures on multiple issues including insecurity, poverty, corruption and economic stagnation. In Nigeria, Archbishop Adewale-Martins of Lagos said he was saddened by the economic hardship
January 03, 2024
Apologia: A Memoir Fr Aidan Nichols Gracewing, £12.99, 164 pages With St John Henry Newman, Fr Aidan Nichols has found the “need to be similarly apologetic” about his life and theological work. Mostly “a human story”, the tale gives him an opportunity to justify some of his actions, as well as to make “an appeal
January 03, 2024
On hearing in 1929 that his native city of Belfast had just built an art gallery but had no paintings to fill it the painter Sir John Lavery decided to generously gift 34 paintings of his own.  Just before this Christmas that same art gallery, now the Ulster Museum, unveiled its most recent acquisition bequeathed
January 03, 2024
The Catholic Church in Fiji has called on Fijians to be mindful of the potentially negative effects of Artificial Intelligence. Archbishop Peter Loy Chong words came in his New Year’s Message, during which he said human dignity and peace are paramount for everyone. He said the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is something that Fiji
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