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Where is the outcry from British Churches on ‘nightmarish’ nature of Scotland’s new ‘thought crime’ law?

April 03, 2024

Not so very long ago, there was a simpler time when discussion about JK Rowling in Catholic circles was generally limited to a discussion between diocesan exorcists and fans of the Harry Potter books. Back then, the diocesan exorcists warned Catholic parents against allowing their children to read Harry Potter (or reading the books themselves)

Bishop Barron: ‘Modernity is a Christian heresy’

February 16, 2023

If available information about Mass attendance since the COVID-19 outbreak is true, then there was certainly significant cause for Word on Fire and Catholic Voices’ conference on identifying the ways of sharing the Church’s story in the modern world. The key speaker at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre opposite Westminster Abbey was American Bishop Robert

California’s Original Sin (It’s Not What You Think)

April 23, 2021

A priest once asked me how California got to be the morally decadent place that it is, and my answer — the Gold Rush — took him by surprise. I think he was expecting one of the usual conservative pieties about radical universities and the 1960s, or the political effects of immigration, or corrupt Democratic

Letters from the Synod: October 7, 2015

October 07, 2015

Reports and commentary, from Rome and elsewhere, on the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

There is nothing shameful about the human body

June 11, 2012

But there's something odd about wanting to appear nude in public

The Cross is a supreme challenge to unbelievers

April 06, 2012

The Crucifixion is a historical certainty. So how do atheists explain it?

Modern scientific slaughter is more barbaric than violence by primitive peoples

November 03, 2011

We are becoming less violent as a species, argues Steven Pinker in his new book, yet that only serves to make the violence of enlightened peoples worse