Pontiff ‘would be happy to visit Holy Land,’ says Vatican
Topic: Israel
King Herod is undergoing an odd reinvention
Posted on Friday, 12 April 2013
Curators of a blockbuster exhibition have sought to sanitise his reputation
Not only was Gerald Scarfe’s cartoon not anti-Semitic; hysterically saying it was makes any rational criticism of it impossible
Posted on Thursday, 31 January 2013
To accuse Scarfe of a ‘blood libel’ is unpardonably over the top: accusations of that seriousness should be more carefully made
Morning Catholic must-reads: 31/01/13
Posted on Thursday, 31 January 2013
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An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth has brought Israel and Gaza to the edge of destruction: it seems inevitable; but it’s just not practical politics
Posted on Friday, 23 November 2012
Reconciliation actually works – that’s what the allies discovered in Germany: but can it be done without unconditional surrender?
Today’s Catholic must-reads: 21/11/12
Posted on Wednesday, 21 November 2012
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Christianity did not begin with a ‘human sacrifice’
Posted on Wednesday, 21 December 2011
One of Christopher Hitchens’s best quoted passages suggests that, though a brilliant orator, he misunderstood Christian theology
The freeing of Gilad Shalit shows Israel’s humanity – and Hamas’s blood-chilling cruelty
Posted on Tuesday, 18 October 2011
His kidnapping five years ago has done the Palestinian cause no favours
Pentecostals are quietly thriving in Jerusalem
Posted on Tuesday, 8 February 2011
The Alliance Pentecostal church is acquiring new converts each month
Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/04/13
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