Criminalising drugs is a statist policy does more harm than good
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
The state does have the right to interfere in the bedroom
Friday, 13 April 2012
The European Court has confirmed once again that everything does not go
What all this Titanic mania reveals about us
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
The ship, a symbol of magnificent human endeavour, was, like all human endeavours, bound to perish
Mormonism is not a Christian religion
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Mormons live exemplary lives but their religion has nothing to do with Christianity
The Cross is a supreme challenge to unbelievers
Friday, 6 April 2012
The Crucifixion is a historical certainty. So how do atheists explain it?
How signed singing for the deaf helped me to understand Newman
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Watching the deaf members of the congregation is moving and informative
How Dawkins got the wrong end of the stick about Aquinas
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
St Thomas Aquinas was not proving the existence of God as you would a piece of furniture. He was testing whether the concept of God made philosophical sense
New Atheism has lost its reason
Friday, 30 March 2012
The standard of debate has declined rapidly since the age of Bertrand Russell. It’s up to Catholics to restore intelligence to the God debate
If you really care about the planet, clean up your neighbourhood first
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
The pile of rubbish covering Britain represents a real moral failure
The TV series Homeland never gets to grips with its key question: why would a US soldier embrace Islam?
I wonder how many Westerners have, like Brody, become Muslim. What would be their reasons for doing so?