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Samantha Smith
Deepfake pornography and my experience of digital violation
When AI systems generate pornographic deepfakes without consent, the damage is not artificial. For Samantha Smith, the Grok scandal exposes how pornography has reshaped our understanding of human dignity
Labour’s crusade against rural Britain
Labour’s animal welfare reforms promise compassion but risk devastating farmers, undermining food security, and accelerating the slow strangulation of rural Britain
It’s okay to grieve at Christmas
Samantha Smith reflects on grief and loss at the time of Christ’s arrival
Why schools must stop erasing the Nativity
A Nativity play in Inverness reminds us that Christ is desperately needed at the centre of the Christmas season.
The UK government's puberty blocker experiment puts children at grave risk
A new UK clinical trial offering puberty blockers to children as young as ten takes little account of the facts or of what it means to be a child, writes Samantha Smith.
Why dating apps are not built for Christian marriage
In the algorithm’s pursuit of perfect matches, the acceptance of human imperfection has been lost. A quality essential to any lasting Christian marriage
Stop trying to baptise Halloween
While Halloween is now synonymous with drunken costume parties, slasher movies and hordes of little monsters pilfering candy from their beleaguered neighbours, this wasn’t always so. But neither was it ever (really) Catholic
The English pope and the American pontiff: Adrian IV and Leo XIV
A common-born Englishman once remade the papacy in the twelfth century. Nearly nine hundred years later, another unlikely Anglophone sits on the throne of St Peter. The parallels are hard to ignore.
The Catholic Church cannot ordain women: the Church is divine – and divinity doesn’t ‘adapt’
Better to be called obstinate than to surrender the sacraments. Better to scandalise polite opinion than to mutilate what has been entrusted by God himself. Better to be decried as old-fashioned than to cease to be Catholic
The shooting of Charlie Kirk is a spiritual crisis, not just a political one
in a moment that seemed straight from a dystopian horror novel, conservative activist and founder of turning point usa, charlie kirk, was sh...
Canada’s Mennonites demonstrate how faith should instruct the political
As 'Gaudium et Spes' insists: 'the split between the faith which many profess and their daily lives deserves to be counted among the more serious errors of our age'
God, Gen Z and the Great British Divine Comeback
Faith returns as young people seek meaning in modern confusion.
Filipino vocations could redraw the future of Catholicism
The archipelagic country in Southeast Asia is poised to reshape Catholicism's clerical landscape, especially when the homelands of Europe languish in vocational decline
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