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January 22, 2024

Pope urges Catholics to pick up a Bible against social media ‘barrage’

January 22, 2024

ROME – Pope Francis has urged believers to go beyond the “barrage” of words in the social media era and to allow themselves to be transformed by God through scripture. Speaking on 21 January to attendees of the fifth edition of his Sunday Mass celebrating the Word of God in Saint Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis

Police continue to intimidate Isabel Vaughan-Spruce for ‘thinking’ outside abortion centre

January 22, 2024

The police force in Birmingham has again interrogated Isabel Vaughan-Spruce about what goes on inside her head outside an abortion centre. In footage obtained by ADF UK, a faith-based legal advocacy organisation, a police community support officer presses Vaughan-Spruce as to the nature of her silent thoughts while within the vicinity of an abortion centre-related “buffer zone”.

God Save the (agnostic) King! But can the monarchy survive a non-religious future ‘Defender of the Faith’?

January 22, 2024

When Henry VIII decided to solve his dynastic succession problem by sacking the Pope, he had to put aside the somewhat inconvenient fact that his people had been Catholic for at least a thousand years; 1,300 if you go back to St Alban. The price paid for his quest for a legitimate male heir was the destruction

‘Computer Says No’: Mr Bates vs the Post Office

January 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence is nosing its way into every aspect of our lives, perhaps nowhere more significantly than in the workplace. As with the internet and social media before it, every industry from automobiles to wellness are falling over themselves to make the most of the available tools, especially since ChatGPT and Open AI came onto