Columns

this week the irish senate (seanad) will commence a futile debate which is unlikely to amend the proposed legislation on hate speech and hat...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

praying near abortion facilities could be made a criminal offence in the uk, supreme court judges have ruled. the country’s highest court de...

Simon Caldwell

the dissolution of the monasteries: a new history by james g clark yale up, £25, 689 pages ________ apart from the black death plague pandem...

John Adamson

siegfried sassoon – war hero, conscientious objector, pacifist, homosexual and, latterly, catholic – has long been a rich seam to filmmakers...

Arabella Byrne

the state of democracy in europe is looking volatile, with lurches to the left and right going on all over the place and that are increasing...

MariaHuisman

jacques maritain, the most famous thomist philosopher of his age, contributed to the drafting of the united nations declaration of human rig...

Anthony McCarthy

home secretary suella braverman has announced that silent prayer near abortion facilities is not a crime in the uk. she has written to every...

Simon Caldwell

in the realm of science and faith, i don’t have that much in common with richard dawkins, but i do agree with him on one thing: namely, that...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

when godfrey of bouillon founded what would become the equestrian order of the holy sepulchre of jerusalem (eohsj) after the first crusade, ...

Thomas Edwards

the central fact of february, in this garden at least, is excitement. moments of almost warm light bring forth the smell of damp springy ear...

charlie-hart