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Advent and the 'Great Paradigm Shift'

there is an old story told about the dilemma of a monkey reaching down through the narrow neck of a glass jar to grab the alluring beads con...
Gavin Ashenden

Has Ireland's abortion clamour contributed to another mismanaged sepsis death?

an irish teenager died in university hospital limerick due to delays in recognising and treating sepsis, the sunday independent   repor...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

Mercy strikes again: the unjust treatment of Cardinal Burke

rome - the cardinals are originally, and still ceremonially, the clergy of the church of rome: the bishops of the suffragan dioceses, the pa...
Diana Montagna

Scottish Catholic group lambasts ‘world's most extreme’ abortion ‘buffer zone’ legislation

a new bill in the scottish parliament to introduce “safe access zones” around abortion centres has scottish catholics deeply concerned, and ...
The Catholic Herald

Why Catholics should continue to follow the news despite anti-religious and progressive bias

i’ve encountered a tendency amongst many fellow believers—especially in more traditional quarters—to express skepticism about the need to re...
Karl Gustel Warnberg

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, by Tahir Hamut Izgil

waiting to be arrested at night tahir hamut izgil jonathan cape, £18.99, 272 pages this poet’s account of life under intense surveillance in...
Hannah Glickstein

Christian families could be forced from foster care system in US

christians could be forced from the foster care system in the united states if president joe biden presses ahead with a new rule to override...
Simon Caldwell

Was 2023 the worst year for Christian persecution?

john newton and john pontifex describe the intimidation and murder of christians in pakistan, india, nigeria and other countries. “christian...
JohnNewtonJohnPontifex

Catholic schools need to be much more careful when promoting secular 'mental health' resources

earlier this year, you may recall seeing this rather disturbing headline,  “teacher told to apologise for addressing a classroom of fem...
Edmund Adamus

Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon' manages the impressive feat of turning a 'great man' of history into an entirely uninteresting character

a sadly common feature of human beings is our ability to take something great and reduce it to something tawdry. think of the wonder of air ...
Anthony McCarthy