A friend to Mao, Gaddafi and the Khmer Rouge, he was no harmless eccentric, and knew when to send in his thugs
Authors
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Alexander Lucie-Smith is a Catholic priest, doctor of moral theology and consulting editor of The Catholic Herald. On Twitter he is @ALucieSmith
Dom Mintoff, a dominant figure in Malta for 30 years, did great harm to his country
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Catholics should be wary of supporting the Russian Orthodox Church against Pussy Riot
Monday, 20 August 2012
Among the victims of the Putin-Orthodox alliance are Russia’s Catholic minority
What St Stephen of Hungary can teach us about manners
Friday, 17 August 2012
The patron saint of Hungary has lots to teach us in the internet age
What the world needs now is a new toilet
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Inventing a new lavatory would make a huge difference to people’s lives
John Lennon’s Imagine encapsulates so many modern objections to religion
Monday, 13 August 2012
When people stop believing in heaven they often create hell on earth
Romeo and Juliet shows the danger of privatising love
Friday, 10 August 2012
The truth is that love is not a purely private matter. Every marriage has a public resonance
King Lear offers a bleak and godless world. But, when I leave the theatre, I feel hope, not despair
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
And hope is not an illusion; it reflects my experience of the world. To be a Christian in faith and practice is to be genuinely human
Charles Darwin’s discovery was surely great. But let’s not dismiss all other thinkers – Aristotle or Socrates, say – who came before him
Monday, 6 August 2012
G G Simpson, quoted by Richard Dawkins, suggested that the great thinkers of antiquity are now worthless
The tragedy at the heart of New Atheism
Friday, 3 August 2012
Belief in an ordered universe is hard to reconcile with a tragic view of life
Prince Harry has damaged the bond between people and monarchy
When the royal family start to behave like ordinary people, they will cease to represent us