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Leading Catholics and rabbis agree: help terminally ill, reject assisted suicide

leading israeli rabbis and catholic church leaders have signed a joint declaration on the ethics of treating the terminally ill, and rejecti...
Kevin-Jones

The Green Man on the King’s card

in the weeks leading up to the coronation, 2,000 invitations landed on doormats across the uk and the wider world. perhaps in a last few cit...
Niall Gooch

Pope recognises martyrdom of Coptic Christians murdered by Islamic State

pope francis has recognised as martyrs a group of 21 coptic orthodox christians murdered by islamic state terrorists eight years ago. the ho...
Simon Caldwell

LeRoy Carhart and how to love your enemy

when the news broke that notorious late-term abortionist leroy carhart was on his death bed, some pro-life christians on social media asked ...
Laura Perrins

Why Pope Francis chose Hungary for his speech on 'ideological colonisation'

a year or two ago i speculated about whether pope francis had intended a snub to hungarian prime minister viktor orbán by only visiting...
Niall Gooch

'Careless words cost lives' - reflections on recent statements from the Pontifical Academy for Life

a number of news outlets have picked up the story that archbishop vincenzo paglia, president of the pontifical academy for life, has appeare...
David Albert Jones

DeSantis is right about the death penalty - in some cases it can be morally justified

catholic organisations have called a new florida law that ends the unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing “stunning” and a “...
Laura Perrins

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

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