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Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii and anniversary of foundational stone laid at famous shrine
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March 01, 2024
Fr Anthony Symondson SJ, 1940-2024
March 01, 2024
Fr Anthony Symondson SJ, who died on 31 January at the age of 83, was one of the 20th century’s most significant historians of ecclesiastical architecture. He became a leading commentator on modern church buildings, producing books on important architects like Ninian Comper and Stephen Dykes Bower. To this he added numerous reviews, chapters and
A little corner of Ireland in Wales: Cardiff’s lost Catholic enclave
March 01, 2024
Driving away from Cardiff Prison on the romantically-named Central Link road towards Cardiff Bay, beloved of tourists and politicians, you’d be forgiven for failing to notice a short-lived part of Cardiff’s history, as it is no longer there. As one accelerates away from the jail, as men of goodwill are wont to do – despite
Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
March 01, 2024
Orbital Samantha Harvey Jonathan Cape, £14.99, 136 pages Samantha Harvey’s Orbital is a quirky little novel, which charts a day in the life of six astronauts on a space-station, their relationship with each other, and ultimately, with the planet from which they come. They have been blasted into space to conduct experiments; they whizz round
Demos II: Anonymous cardinal excoriates ‘vindictive’ Francis for fracturing Church
March 01, 2024
An anonymous cardinal has launched an astonishing attack on Pope Francis’s style of papacy, saying it is autocratic, vindictive and confusing and that it has left the Church “more fractured than at any time in her recent history”. The cardinal, who wishes to be unnamed in fear of reprisals, set out a blueprint for what
Catholic institute criticises MPs for ignoring euthanasia abuses in new report
March 01, 2024
A Catholic bioethics institute has criticised a new UK parliamentary report for whitewashing the uncontrollable spread of euthanasia and assisted suicide and the horrendous abuses of the elderly in countries where such practices are legalised. The report by Health and Social Care committee did not recommend a change to UK’s law against assisted suicide –
US President rejects Catholic teaching on IVF as bishops oppose state funding
March 01, 2024
NEW YORK – In a letter to Senators, four American Bishops’ Conference chairmen argued that there is no scenario where in vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a morally acceptable means of pregnancy. They said that legislation to establish a federal right to such procedures should not be passed because it involves the creation and destruction of
America’s flight from marriage laid bare by new study
March 01, 2024
A new study claims one-in-three young adults in the United States will never marry. Writing for the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), Lyman Stone said these are close to the lowest levels ever observed for marriage rates. “Many commentators will blame these declines on the increased delay in marriage. While there’s some truth to this,
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