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N. Irish Catholic schools fight back as pressure mounts to adopt secular ideologies

just as the scottish bishops’ conference has robustly engaged the department of education in scotland on the removal of protections for cath...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

Freedom wins as Finnish politician found 'not guilty' of hate speech for Bible tweet

it is a worrying fact that the right of catholics, and indeed all christians, to manifest their beliefs can’t be taken for granted these day...

Prof Andrew Tettenborn

What we can learn from Aaron Rosen's What Would Jesus See

seeing as jesus sees. for those of a certain age, it would be easy to misread the title of aaron rosen’s new book as “what would jesus do?” ...

Nick Ripatrazone

A screenplay about the life of Fr John Gerard: a positively countercultural project

mark batey introduces his screenplay about the life of fr john gerard. cancel culture, thought police, identity politics. these may sound li...

Poirot, but not as we know him: A Haunting in Venice, reviewed by Julia Hamilton

christie as a horror movie doesn’t work, says julia hamilton. a haunting in venice is the third in a trilogy of films produced and acted in ...

Pope Francis in Marseille: migrants should be viewed as gifts, not as a burden

marseille – after a week of rising tensions within europe amid a surge in migrant arrivals, with some countries, including france, taking me...

How the 60s paved the way for today's culture wars

philip larkin, in  annus mirabilis , tells us that:   “sexual intercourse began/in nineteen sixty-three/(which was rather lat...

Anthony McCarthy

Oppenheimer, reviewed by Julia Hamilton

the film’s events are magnetically clustered around los alamos, finds julia hamilton. if you thought that christopher nolan’s last film, dun...

The Lancet's misguided invocation of Gramsci

earlier this year,  the   lancet , a 200-year-old medical journal, carried an editorial entitled, “we must engage in a war of posi...

Anthony McCarthy

The unexpected return of Christian ethics

the church has been fighting a losing battle in the west over culture, belief and ethics. but rather surprisingly, there are reasons for thi...