Europe

Christian MP who quoted from Bible cleared of hate crimes

a finnish court has cleared a christian mp of hate crimes after she was prosecuted for quoting verses from the bible. a court in helsinki di...
CNA Staff

Diary: "The key to sustainability is working in harmony with nature"

tuesday – an invitation arrives from stratford-upon-avon town council. would i like to attend the conferment of the freedom of the town upon...
Jonathan Bate

Putin, Kirill and the Vatican

there are many who see in patriarch kirill’s reluctance to condemn the russian invasion of ukraine, evidence of caesaropapism. certainly, it...
Mark Jenkins

Rock of Ages

stat crux dum volvitur orbis, the carthusians say: the cross is steady while the world turns. in the midst of what a great anglican prayer c...
Niall Gooch

Diary: Witnessing the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

‘have a good trip”, says the faded tourism leaflet taped to the window of the ukrainian border guard post with hungary at beregsurány. i was...
William Cash

Friends reunited

four things came to mind when a neighbour’s ceramic bird-feeder shot past my study window before disintegrating with a crash against the gar...
Serenhedd James

Pain and suffering in God’s broken world

"if you believe in a loving god, why do babies die of leukemia?” i’d never engaged seriously before with the question, but when faced with h...
Mark Dowd

The risen Christ in the four Gospels

when we think about easter, and particularly about the appearances of the post-resurrection christ, we are almost certainly going to be thin...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Pray for peace in Ukraine

the pope could hardly be clearer about how he sees the war in ukraine. speaking in the vatican at the height of the russian attacks on mariu...
The Catholic Herald

Exhibition review: The World of Stonehenge

there is a certain apophatic quality to  the world of stonehenge  at the british museum, which is defined by the absence at its ce...
Serenhedd James