Culture

Bending the rules in children's literature

in common with most parents, i have devoted considerable time and energy to teaching my children that stealing is wrong, that they should ob...

AI and bread: Transubstantiation can cast a new light on artificial intelligence

there’s been a lot about ai in the news lately, though so far as i know, not much has been written about the relationship between ai and the...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

Things can fall apart without ritual

a strange thing happened last week: we missed mass on sunday morning and suddenly the whole day just completely fell apart. lunch time came ...

Olenka Hamilton

The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown, by Alexander Larman

the windsors at war: the nazi threat to the crown alexander larman weidenfeld & nicholson, £25.99, 432 pages when the king and queen ret...

Alexandra Lloyd

Nebraska bans abortion at 12 weeks and sex change surgery for minors

nebraska will now ban abortion 12 weeks into pregnancy and ban gender-altering surgery for minors. a new bill, signed into law on monday, al...

Homily for Pentecost: Brought together by the Holy Spirit

people have strong views about church music which they are not afraid to express. when catholics suddenly started singing hymns at mass in t...

Fr Mark Vickers

The Paschal mystery continues at the Ascension and Pentecost

in the “farewell discourse” of st john’s gospel, chapters 14-16, christ prepares his disciples for his departure. in fact there is some deli...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Why Pachamamas have no place in the Church

the podcast merely catholic gives me the opportunity to meet people of real calibre and interest, as well as discovering things i was unawar...

Woke: the new religion?

the new culture has aspects of an old-style great awakening , says toby young for the past three years, in my capacity as general secretary ...

Why the Book of Samuel is my favourite in the Bible, by Andrew Roberts

‘there was a certain man from ramathaim, a zuphite from the hill country of ephraim, whose name was elkanah son of jeroham, the son of ...