Culture

Cardinal calls all Catholics to 'holy hour' of prayer to defeat assisted suicide Bill

cardinal vincent nichols has called for catholics in england and wales to join him and fellow bishops to pray for a "holy hour" next week fo...
Simon Caldwell

Synodality and Christian anthropology: Cambridge remembers Nicholas Lash

nicholas lash receives a papal knighthood from bishop alan hopes in 2017 : www.rcdea.org.uk on the evening of 7 november, fisher house in ca...
Ciaron Tobin

Sister Clare Crockett, the beloved 'All or Nothing' Irish nun, up for sainthood

the beatification cause is being opened for sister clare crockett, the young irish nun who turned her back on a promising acting career for ...
The Catholic Herald

Trump victory indicates white Catholics becoming major GOP voter bloc

voter turnout during the 2024 us presidential election indicates that white catholics are increasingly likely to vote for the republican par...
johnlavenburg

The long and faithful history of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street:

the importance of the church of our lady of the assumption and st gregory in the history of catholicism in london over the past three centur...
Monsignor Keith Newton

'The Machine Age': the ideologies and religious influences behind AI

the machine age robert skidelsky penguin, £25, 384 pages robert skidelsky’s the machine age is an ambitious attempt at a timely intervention...
Luka Murphy

The growing power of the Amish vote in US politics

religion has not played a central role in this election campaign. it seems that there are other, more immediate issues—such as the economy, ...
Thomas Edwards

New book questions role of priest in notorious witchcraft trial

a new book on witchcraft has challenged the alleged role of a catholic priest in coaching a teenage girl to accuse her relatives of sorcery ...
Simon Caldwell

Silent thought, loud control: the lurid rise of 'thought crime' in modern Britain

the first conceptual seeds of george orwell's novel 1984 can be traced back to his essay "london letter", written in 1944, in which he expre...
Thomas Edwards

Ringing the changes, from Tudor to Stuart

from tudor to stuart: the regime change from elizabeth i to james i by susan doran oxford university press, £30, 646 pages over the last two...
Alexander Faludy