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University of Notre Dame wants to help steer AI use toward faith-based ethics
the university of notre dame has announced that it intends to develop faith-based frameworks to encourage ethical uses of artificial intelli...
johnlavenburg
Galileo is not the atheists’ posterboy
in our generation the myth that faith and science are incompatible – meaning that no intelligent person should believe in god – has been pus...
Gavin Ashenden
Diary: Life in the papal jet-set
every papal trip, however long or short, is a bit of a rat-race. for the press, it usually involves early check-ins and, therefore, absurdly...
Elise Allen
Archbishop of Mombasa decries official recognition of Kenyan gay-rights group
a leading catholic prelate in kenya, who’s set to take part in a vatican synod of bishops next month, has objected to a ruling by the countr...
Ngala Killian Chimtom
Court sides with Catholic clinic, overturns law banning abortion reversal hormone
new york – a federal court in colorado has sided with a catholic healthcare clinic in its challenge to a recent state law that forbids docto...
John Lavenburg
'On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Fireworks followed by the dawn of New Year's Day
it is new year’s day. midnight has been marked with the usual eruption of noise. if there was silence in heaven for half an hour, there was ...
vivboland
Indonesian police arrest seven for terror plot to kill Pope Francis
seven people in indonesia have been detained after a failed plot to attack pope francis during his visit to the country. local media says th...
The Catholic Herald
Cardinal Tagle promotion puts him in pole position to succeed Francis
cardinal luis antonio tagle - fast-emerging as a frontrunner to succeed pope francis , as rumours grow about a looming papal resignation – m...
Staff Reporter
Pope Francis should speak up for Taiwan
on tuesday, us house speaker nancy pelosi arrived in taiwan, the island democracy which china views as a renegade province. although the us ...
The Catholic Herald
Helping young people escape the ‘social media trap’
in hindsight the covid pandemic was the world’s most extensive experiment to settle a centuries-old question that has befuddled scientists a...
ralphschoellhammer
Stilted but endearing
silverview by john le carré penguin viking, £20.00, 208 pages ________ posthumous novels are rarely a good idea. a great writer’s literary e...
Charles Cumming
Is Pope Francis stacking the deck for the next conclave?
are we reading too much into pope francis’s upcoming consistory, which could influence the choice of his successor, asks john h allen jr . r...
John Allen
How emperors protected the Papacy from bad popes and created Western Civilization
in the december issue, piers paul read reminded readers of the times when christianity was persecuted. this is not untimely, given the re-co...
James Bogle
Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle receives ‘good practice’ standard from safeguarding agency
the diocese of hexham and newcastle has received a “good practice” standard from the agency that oversees safeguarding in the catholic churc...
The Catholic Herald
Judgement is Coming
the parables in st matthew’s gospel are eschatological in their message. as the liturgical year draws to a close, our attention is always tu...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Vance pledges religious liberty prioritised in US and abroad by Trump administration
vice president jd vance has declared that the second trump administration will prioritise advancing religious freedom both domestically and ...
johnlavenburg
Expanding the Orthodox empire
in 2016, i happened to be in karyes, capital of the monastic republic of mount athos, when vladimir putin swept into the small hilltop in a ...
Mark Jenkins
Vatican's top diplomat addresses intervention on controversial Italian draft law dealing with homophobia
pope francis and cardinal pietro parolin leave the paul vi hall on february 12, 2015. (filippo monteforte/afp via getty images) the v...
Staff Reporter
Early action could have stopped Vatican from losing cash in failed London deals, says Cardinal Pell
cardinal george pell, the vatican’s former economy czar, has said that if his office had been able to intervene sooner, it could have saved ...
Hannah Brockhaus
Over 700 medical professionals back biggest change to UK abortion law in a generation
more than 700 medical professionals have called on mps to lower the upper time limits for abortions by two weeks. they want politicians to b...
Simon Caldwell
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