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Valentine’s Day diary from Ukraine

by brooks newmark  i have ended up on february 14 in odesa, an old port city on the black sea in southern ukraine. my wife lucy flew ou...
The Catholic Herald

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...
Thomas Black

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,...
Mary Walker

Same-sex blessings vote shows the CoE favours secular consensus over Christianity

we don’t know who coined the phrase: “whoever was first to discover water, it wasn’t the fish.” but einstein liked it enough to borrow it: “...
Gavin Ashenden

Priest charged over free speech protest outside abortion clinic

(fr sean gough was charged with 'intimidating service users' | adf) police charged a catholic priest after he held up a sign with the words ...
Simon Caldwell

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...
Edmund Adamus

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 ...
Laura Perrins

Climate alarmism is profoundly un-Christian

in answer to a question thrown at me more than once, and only occasionally with accompanying rotten fruit, “yes, i do call myself a christia...
Katherine Bennett

Lords back abortion buffer zone amendment to turn prayer into 'thought crime'

the house of lords has backed the national roll out of buffer zones around abortion clinics in a move which could turn private and silent pr...
Simon Caldwell

St Brigid: the latest victim of cancel culture in Ireland

february 1 marks the feast of st. brigid in ireland, a day most people in the country grew up with as the second most-important "irish" sain...
Dualta Roughneen