There is a ceasefire finally in effect in the Gaza Strip, where Israel launched a horrific military campaign in response to attacks on the country’s south on October 7, 2023. On that day, Hamas fighters and their fellow militants assaulted Israeli settlements and fortified military outposts. They killed around 1,200 people, and over 251 others…
None of the classics are safe anymore. Hedda (R) is the latest one to receive a makeover. Dia Da Costa has transplanted the feminist fable Hedda Gabler from Henrik Ibsen’s Norway to a 1950s English manor. The text has been changed to make it relevant for the #MeToo era. With all these iterations are we…
Q: In families that are suffering from generational curses or that are involved in a lot of occult practices, why doesn’t baptism free their infants from the power of demons? A: The short answer is that I wouldn’t be so quick to assume that baptism doesn’t do this. Often when people think of exorcism, what…
A Divine Calling: One Woman’s Life-Long Battle for Equality in the Catholic Church, by Soline Humbert, foreword by Mary McAleese (The Liffey Press, €19.95 / £17.95) This book arrived for review at about the same time that it was announced that Dame Sarah Mullally was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. Her elevation brings into focus the…
Dear Editor, Catherine Connolly views seem to subvert the very constitution that the President is elected to protect. She wants a third legal gender to have equal status with male and female! Our laws are based on biology – male and female. He created them, but all our laws will have to change accordingly if…
An Post will issue a new commemorative stamp next week marking the centenary of the ordination of Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands of lives during the Second World War. From 1942, while serving in the Vatican, Msgr O’Flaherty organised an underground network known as ‘The Organisation’ which helped more than 6,500…
I once knew a widowed lady who was the mother of two unmarried sons. Both lived with her until the day she died in her nineties. Since they were infants, their mother did everything possible for them. She cooked their food, washed their clothes and did for adult men what they should have learned to…
In her autobiography The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day shares how she once prayed at a low time in her life. Dorothy Day, as you know, grew up without faith. An intellectual, moving in Marxist and anti-church circles, she entered her twenties convinced that if anyone had the courage to look life square in the eye,…
The Archbishopric of Carthage was “nullius”, Tunisia’s socialists declared in Latin in 1964: it ruled “over nothing”. A slap in the face for the claims that Rome had formulated in the 1880s under the protection of France. Tunis/Algiers (KNA) Ancient Christianity in North Africa, with its front men Cyprian of Carthage and Augustine of Hippo,…
Political scientist Marc Frings on the chance for peace in the Middle East “The two-state solution is still an international consensus” Marc Frings has been Secretary General of the Central Committee of German Catholics since 2020. Before Frings took up this post, he headed the office of the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Ramallah, Palestine,…
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