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Motherhood should trump career ambitions

The idea that women can have it all is one of the biggest myths told to my generation. So I am always edified when people of prominence shatter this illusion with common sense

Portia Berry-Kilby

The Camino de Santiago reminds us to walk in the footsteps of the Pilgrim Church

'The Pilgrim Church' is one of those mysterious, allusively beautiful phrases that moves in and out of a Catholic layperson’s consciousness – but it wasn't one that I dwelt on until my own experience of pilgrimage this summer

Return of the Word: why the young are turning back to God at remarkable speed

Why Catholic conversions speak, and Anglican ones fall silent

The saints, the Eucharist and the sacrament of reconciliation make new Catholics shout for joy. In reverse, it is hard to know what to say.

AI takeover would destroy the spiritual riches of human toil

Google’s former Chief Business Officer, Mo Gawdat, has predicted a rough ride for humanity due to AI development, though he claims it will eventually enable us to live in a supposed utopia

Voice of Reason: “A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.”

Superlative satirical songster: the legacy of the late, great Tom Lehrer

Pope Leo and the Meaning of Work in the Age of AI

Gaetano Masciullo

Pope Leo’s first 100 days: silence, strategy, and the enigma ahead

Pope Leo’s quiet first months leave Church awaiting decisive moves.

Father Carlos Martins exonerated

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

Why I quit UK politics to try and become a Catholic priest

The Covid pandemic was perhaps the moment when I began to think seriously about it. As we came out of lockdown and picked up the pieces of pre-pandemic life, this sense of needing to make a change came back strongly

James Somerville-Meikle

On playing advocatus diaboli: a reflection on Saint John Henry Newman

Reviving a legacy: inside the Challoner Club’s grand inaugural Mass and reception

The greatest love of all: meaning, sacrifice & our declining birth rate

UK birth rate collapse reminds us of Christ’s call to sacrificial love

Faith, freedom and politics: Christians and public life

Kemi Badenoch and the problem of evil

The Tory leader told an interviewer this week that it was the monstrous crimes of Josef Fritzl which caused her to cast aside her Christian faith

A Christian defence of JK Rowling

There is something curiously medieval about the modern inquisition against JK Rowling

EXCLUSIVE: Connor Estelle (Pinesap) responds to accusations of fascism, supporting Franco, and being a Groyper

Pinesap unpacks faith, politics and backlash after Jubilee debate.

Danny Kruger and the case for a Christian renewal in Britain

Samantha Smith recounts Danny Kruger’s Commons call for Britain’s Christian moral reawakening

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