Education

The Sixteen's Harry Christophers on Lent, lyrics, and life

on a perishingly cold day i find myself talking with harry christophers, the world-acclaimed conductor and director of the sixteen, about le...

Serenhedd James

Ron DeSantis: the Catholic rival feared by Trump

the race to become the republican challenger to joe biden in next year’s presidential election has suddenly started to heat up. republican p...

Nicholas Wapshott

Irish teacher's religious objection to gender affirmation backed by the science

enoch burke was originally suspended from his role as a secondary school teacher at wilson’s hospital school in ireland for refusing to reco...

Dualta Roughneen

UK charity Mary's Meals is feeding 2.5 million vulnerable children - and it needs your help

(photo: little josephine has uk charity mary's meals to thank for her lunch at school every day) in the dry and unforgiving landscape of tur...

The legend of the Minotaur comes to Oxford

the sainsbury exhibition galleries at the ashmolean museum in oxford aren’t the largest space in the world, and on entry labyrinth: knossos,...

Bishops launch new 'academically rigorous' Religious Education Directory

education consultant edmund adamus explains what the catholic education service's new directory will mean for catholic schools in england an...

Today's Conservative Party is no place for Catholics

the catholics in the conservative party group hosted a formal launch event in the houses of parliament last week. the group says it aims to ...

Religion and the Rise of Sport in England, by Hugh McLeod

religion and the rise of sport in england hugh mcleod oxford university press, £30, 304 pages a visitor from 200 years ago, landing in engla...

Dr Mark Chapman

The Word: On the Translation of the Bible, by John Barton

the word: on the translation of the bible john barton allen lane, £25, 320 pages the tricky business of translating sacred scripture from th...

How the gender ideology war is destroying the lives of young girls

julie is 14. she sees gender ideology as a kind of social contagion:  "controversial gender ideology has taken over my school. there's ...