Culture

'The Damascus Events': How the 1860 massacre shaped the modern Middle East

the damascus events: the 1860 massacre and the making of the modern middle east eugene rogan penguin: allen lane, £30, 400 pages on jul...

Alexander Faludy

‘God is not mocked’: Harrison Butker weighs in on Last Supper controversy at Olympics

harrison butker has added his voice to other public figures calling out the anti-christian crassness that was overtly on display during the ...

Pride: How it is intimately bound up with the rejection of God's omnipotence

the university of oxford hosts a sermon every year in st mary’s church on the sin of pride. part of the joke, in my day, was that they used ...

INTERVIEW: Mother Abbess of thriving traditionalist order in US discusses their move to a 19th-century abbey in England

the benedictines of mary, queen of the apostles are one of the success stories in the contemporary church. going from strength to strength, ...

New ‘God’s Gang’ cartoon tries hard to explore interfaith dialogue and relations – but fails

superheroes, evil aliens, trippy plotlines, comic disproportion, a farting planet. the new cartoon series god’s gang has all the trappings o...

Catholic philosopher René Girard could shape US politics now JD Vance on Republican ticket

jd vance is not a big fan of the political left, despite his humble background. in the view of the catholic politician that everyone is now ...

Chaldean bishops praise Iraqi prime minister for reinstating patriarch but decry 'agony of Christians' in country

closing their annual synod meeting the chaldean bishops highlighted the persecution of christians and the scourge of seemingly unending conf...

Muddled end to Joe Biden's re-election campaign highlights dysfunction plaguing US politics

a famous phrase conjured by t.s. eliot in his poem the hollow men springs to mind as the most apposite reaction to the news that president j...

Why the Book of Jonah is full of enigma, by Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM

there are many biblical books that fascinate me, from both the old and the new testaments. reading genesis, exodus and the psalms always mov...

Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM

Petitions defending Latin Mass keep rolling in

the calls on pope francis not to impose fresh restrictions on the traditional mass have been joined by two more joint letters. both have bee...