Life

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

Dutch legalise euthanasia for primary school-age children

euthanasia is to be extended to primary school-age children in the netherlands, the dutch government has announced. health minister ernst ku...
Simon Caldwell

Islamists kill 55,000 Nigerian Christians in 14 years

islamic militants in nigeria have killed almost 55,000 christians in the last 14 years, a new report has said. since the boko haram insurgen...
Simon Caldwell

Paul Johnson 1928-2023

as a young journalist, i remember listening to the legendary paul johnson at el vino, fleet street’s famed tavern. paul dispensed merry wisd...
Mary Kenny

Fauré's Requiem – Facing death through music

michael white praises a production of fauré’s requiem accompanied by sky burial, and a powerful opera about a nun visiting death row. gabrie...
Michael White

Franz Wright and the cleansing truth of the Resurrection

nick ripatrazone considers the deep, spiritually introspective words of an award-winning poet who worked with grieving children. in arlingto...
Nick Ripatrazone

The problem with a multi-faith coronation

when one of my previous bosses, a university vice-chancellor, wanted to show his contempt for a problem, he would dismiss it as a “theologic...
Gavin Ashenden

Proposed laws on embryo experimentation and fertility treatment are rushing us headlong into a Brave New World

(the manager of bioart fertility clinics lab prepares thawed blastocysts during an in-vitro fertilisation process in johannesburg, on februa...
David Albert Jones

Finding Family at the Foundling Museum

family is where you find it, as they say. it is a broad statement in the face of which the church’s social teachings have to hold their own ...
Mary Walker

Saint Benedict In His Community, by Richard Newman

richard newman gracewing, £14.99, 244 pages this small book is a revision and extension of richard newman’s saint benedict in his time, whic...
Philippa Edwards OSB