Culture

LeRoy Carhart and how to love your enemy

when the news broke that notorious late-term abortionist leroy carhart was on his death bed, some pro-life christians on social media asked ...
Laura Perrins

Pope Francis upholds Catholic ban on contraception

pope francis has sent a message to a natural family planning (nfp) conference in which he upheld the central teachings of humanae vitae, the...
Simon Caldwell

Crowning Our Lady with flowers in May

flowers follow mathematical sequences that make them pleasing to the eye. if you were to ask mathematicians why they are so passionate about...
Fr Robert Verrill OP

The King's coronation oath: an explainer for Catholics

the order of service for the coronation of king charles on saturday is now available online , and a very interesting read it is. the central...
Melanie McDonagh

Karl Lagerfeld’s world was never far from referencing the Church

this year’s met gala, which took place yesterday, chose karl lagerfeld as its theme. although i served a brief apprenticeship in the sartori...
Karl Gustel Warnberg

The complex moral decision about where to send your child to school

one of the ladies in my group of local mother friends recently expressed horror that her five-year-old daughter had been taught a bible stor...
Olenka Hamilton

Lay people, including women, will participate in Synod on Synodality assembly, Vatican announces

the 2023 synod of bishops will include lay people, half of whom will be women, organisers revealed in a landmark development for the church’...
Hugh Kerr

As fertility rate plummets in Catholic Italy, what hope is left for the West?

over the years i have had four children, so i have been to a lot of playgrounds. i could write a book on the best and worst playgrounds in s...
Laura Perrins

What life is really like for Ukraine's children and youth

(in the cellar of a kyiv kindergarten, children take shelter during an air raid | genya savilov / afp via getty) in my twenty-five years as ...
Jeffrey Wills

The Church hasn't always approved of chess

for most of us, chess is a leisurely activity -  a source of amusement and mental distraction. but as we speak it is being played out a...
Karl Gustel Warnberg