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I’m a direct descendant of Darwin, but I have discovered the beauty of the Catholic faith
The author’s great-great-great grandfather is a New Atheist hero, but she is a Catholic apologist
Art can communicate truths about God that we cannot put into words
Great Catholic art lifts the heart, mind and soul up to where God is
Whatever the commerical overtones, Father’s Day is worth celebrating
The decline of fatherhood is a shocking tragedy in America and Britain
We need ARCIC III to guide us along the difficult path to unity
Ecumenism is part of the very DNA of the Church
Cheerful news for a Friday: Catholic-Anglican relations are actually in good shape
ARCIC may have failed, but on the great moral issues of the day Catholics and Anglicans are on the same side
I was wrong and uncharitable to suggest that the Pope should not be meeting Archbishop Welby. But about our relationship with Anglicanism I got it right
Above all, ARCIC is the institutionalisation of the indifferentism which has so weakened faith in the parishes since the Sixties
Pope Francis was all too familiar with Liberation Theology. That’s why he opposed it
Many questions still remain about our new Pope but we know his views on Liberation Theology









Pope Francis, as I hoped, will complete Pope Benedict’s unfinished encyclical: it will be a striking illustration of the hermeneutic of continuity
It would have been a kind of tragedy if this “strong document” had been privately published