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April 08, 2024

Helping young people escape the ‘social media trap’

April 08, 2024

In hindsight the Covid pandemic was the world’s most extensive experiment to settle a centuries-old question that has befuddled scientists and philosophers alike – despite the guidance offered by the Church. The apparent riddle for such lofty minds is whether human beings are primarily individuals who just enter society out of selfish needs, or are

Vatican condemns ‘gender theory’ in new doctrinal document

April 08, 2024

The Vatican has condemned gender ideology in a document published 8 April. The new Declaration Dignitas Infinita on Human Dignity from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), offers a clear definition of human dignity as the Church sees it and stresses the need to uphold it from conception to natural death.

Nifty Shades of Grey: Great Flemish Drawings at the Ashmolean Museum

April 08, 2024

The Ashmolean Museum at Oxford has set itself something of a challenge with its latest exhibition, but rises to it magnificently. Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings draws on the museum’s own spectacular Old Masters collection, which are usually housed in the relatively humble Western Art Print Room. This is the first time it has

Fr Garrigou-Lagrange OP, doctoral supervisor to John Paul II, on the Annunciation

April 08, 2024

Mary became Mother of the Redeemer at the Annunciation. From her consent, Be it done to me according to thy word, follows all the rest of her life, just as all Jesus’ life followed from the consent he gave to his Father’s will on entering the world: You took no pleasure in holocausts or sacrifices

Let them finally have a Christian burial: Captain Robert Nairac and last of the ‘Disappeared’ from Northern Ireland’s Troubles

April 08, 2024

Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh has reiterated his ongoing call for action to finally retrieve the remains of Northern Ireland’s last few “Disappeared”: four men killed by the IRA during the Troubles, whose bodies have never been found. The Catholic Church in Northern Ireland recalls these men each year at a special Mass, which is

How doubting Thomas can inspire those of us who endure a ‘traumatised faith’

April 08, 2024

“Unless I see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.” (John 20:25) Our lectionary’s translation of this verse from the Gospel of the second Sunday of Easter removes an