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A new journal will challenge academic groupthink – and devotees of free speech

November 22, 2018

The Journal of Controversial Ideas will offend progressives. But let's remember that controversy is not valuable in and of itself

What Catholics lose when they leave the Church

November 22, 2018

Ex-Catholics never seem to propose any higher, truer teaching than the Catholic faith

Notes on a scandal

November 22, 2018

Last week, the Vatican dramatically blocked the US bishops’ proposals to tackle the crisis. What happens next?

Behind the scenes at the world’s most celebrated Passion Play

November 22, 2018

Every ten years, half the population of the small town of Oberammergau appears in the spectacular production

November 23, 2018

November 22, 2018

Heretic of the week

November 22, 2018

Nestorius (386-450) was born in Germanicia in the Roman Province of Syria – now Kahramanmaraş, in Turkey. He became a monk in a monastery in Antioch, capital of the province, and soon won a reputation for piety and good sermons. On that basis, in 428, Emperor Theodosius II appointed him to the newly vacant Archdiocese

Is a man entitled to kill to defend his property from burglars?

November 22, 2018

Is a man entitled to use a gun to defend his property from burglars – and then shoot dead one of these intruders? I found that a difficult moral dilemma when the case of Tony Martin first arose in 1999. Mr Martin, described as “eccentric”, lived alone in an isolated farmhouse, appropriately called Bleak House,

Martyrs and tomorrow’s Church

November 22, 2018

It is, perversely, a mark of Catholicism’s success that it is being targeted in Africa