Life

New lamps for old

it occurred to me, after i had scattered a handful of earth on the small coffin, six feet below, that my world had changed forever. not in a...
Serenhedd James

Joy is the perfect antidote to our angry and unforgiving post-Christian dystopia

the uk is officially post-christian. it is “the first time in a census of england and wales that fewer than half of the population have desc...
Laura Perrins

Cardinal Sarah issues warning on religious freedom

“democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” insisted winston churchill. less famously, he went on to say that th...
Gavin Ashenden

CCLA leads calls for large UK companies to provide cost of living support to low paid

( photograph of peter hugh smith courtesy of ccla ) a 17-strong investor coalition has called for the largest uk companies to provide better...
Hugh Kerr

Diary: the Knights Hospitaller, the Holy Land, and the miracle of birth

i recently returned from a pilgrimage with the british association of the order of malta to the holy land. our visits to the holy places rem...
Mgr John Armitage

Down's woman vows to fight abortion law discrimination in Supreme Court

a woman with down’s syndrome is to take her fight to halt abortions up to birth for babies with her genetic condition after the court of app...
Simon Caldwell

Liberals are wrong to push for the ordination of women

i was once in conversation with a man so desperately concerned with women’s rights that he soon put me in my place for defending the male pr...
Katherine Bennett

Growing extremism and intolerant nationalism are to blame for increased persecution of Christians, says new report by Catholic charity

john pontifex explores why acn's new report - persecuted and forgotten? a report on christians oppressed for their faith 2020-22 - should be...
John Pontifex

Pope Francis denounces populism

on sunday, pope francis ate lunch with hundreds of refugees and homeless people, calling for a renewed commitment to helping society’s weake...
Ignatius Dean

Welsh government's aggressive attack on childhood innocence

the battle against compulsory sex education for minors ought to be of major concern to all of us who care deeply about protecting the innoce...
Edmund Adamus