Militant atheists seem less likely than Christians to fall for wackadoo conspiracy theories
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Stuart Reid
Stuart Reid was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, and went to Ampleforth. Since 2008 he has been writing the Charterhouse column for the Catholic Herald. He was deputy editor of the Spectator under Boris Johnson.
Cardinal O’Brien is right: there is a vengeance culture in the US
Monday, 9 August 2010
The American way with criminals is at times barbaric. Take the case of Ronnie Lee Gardner, executed by firing squad after 25 years of near-solitary confinement
Let’s stop hissing and spitting over the Pope’s visit
Friday, 30 July 2010
The Holy Father’s trip to Britain will be miserable for everyone if we don’t change our tone
Please, let’s not be victims of hate crime
Friday, 23 July 2010
The Protect the Pope website seems to present Catholics as a ‘victim group’. But let’s keep our dignity, and not whine about our rights
So the Pope says the old Mass privately? Well, probably not
Monday, 19 July 2010
The Vatican seems to have denied the story in 2007. Plus, there is footage of the Pope celebrating Mass, in the Ordinary Form, in his private chapel
Leave Roman Polanski to the justice and mercy of God
Friday, 16 July 2010
The victim of his crime, Samantha Geimer, wants the case dropped. To bang him up would be cruel and vengeful
An influx of Anglo-Catholics will add to the divisions of the Church
Thursday, 15 July 2010
We may be about to witness the first fruits of Pope Benedict’s Anglicanorum coetibus. But not everyone is rejoicing
Mel Gibson’s traditionalism seems to be feeding his demons
Monday, 12 July 2010
You don’t have to be a doctor to know that Mel is in trouble. And his Holy Family Church is not helping
The lessons of 7/7: Islam, tolerance and American wars
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Some have been learnt – the idea, for instance, that Britain should have stayed out of Iraq. But others have not
The Americans are leaving Iraq – but the war goes on
Perhaps now the US will end its policy of intervention in order to make future Iraqs impossible