Life

Gadfly and Scourge: On Alice Thomas Ellis

almost two decades after her death in 2005, alice thomas ellis’s novels and non-fiction works are available in paperback from bloomsbury aca...

Finding God through imagery

when graham sutherland (1903-1980) was asked by his fellow painter john caxton whether his “paintings were made of two facets, flesh and bon...

Daniel Frampton

When humanists fall out with each other

last summer, i was amused to see that organised atheism was facing the possibility of a serious schism. perhaps it wasn’t so very surprising...

Finding grace in the presence of evil

in the united states the overruling of roe v wade, which returned regulation of abortion access to each of the 50 states, has elicited stron...

Celebrating duty and service

it was an extraordinary 10 days of national mourning to mark the death of hrh queen elizabeth ii, not only for the pomp and ceremony but for...

It's time to reclaim the home

cs lewis in his brilliant and cutting essay, ‘on the appeal and challenges of home life’ from god in the dock and featuring in how to be a c...

Italian nun killed by Muslim insurgents in Mozambique

on 6th september, a group of muslim insurgents attacked a mission in memba district, in nampula province, mozambique, and killed three resid...

Eduardo Campos Lima

The truth about the Enoch Burke case

the story of an irish teacher being jailed for refusing to comply with a request from his school to refer to a girl using the pronoun ‘they’...

Dualta Roughneen

The voice of the Church in public life does not threaten democracy

in the wake of the united states supreme court decision in dobbs, there have been renewed criticisms of the role of the catholic church in p...

HM Queen Elizabeth II

the death of queen elizabeth ii will surely be measured in superlatives. the length of her reign, the affection in which she was held, and t...

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