Dumbing down the priesthood

Mar 5, 2024 by

by Marcus Walker, Sounding Board: Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away. ‘Key limiting factors”. Two and a half years ago a firestorm engulfed the Church of England as Canon John...

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Some fears about Islam are entirely rational

Mar 5, 2024 by

by Richard Dawkins, spiked: Richard Dawkins on the perils of outlawing ‘Islamophobia’. A ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear, as in claustrophobia, agoraphobia or arachnophobia, all conditions deserving of sympathy. But fear can be rational,...

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Next election will be about Muslims, says Galloway

Mar 5, 2024 by

by Amy Gibbons, Telegraph: ‘Muslims and Gaza’ are ‘wedge issue’ Sunak intends to use as his ‘only hope of re-election’, says new Rochdale MP. The next election will be about Muslims, George Galloway said as he was sworn into the Commons...

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Church of England to expand target to address slavery links to £1bn

Mar 5, 2024 by

from Premier: The Church of England has accepted a £1bn target to address historical financial links to the slave trade as recommended by an oversight group led by descendants of enslaved Africans which said the initial 100 million pounds...

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The invisible pandemic: unplanned childlessness

Mar 5, 2024 by

by Louis T March, Mercator: First off, it’s that time of year: 2023 population data are pouring in. A surfeit of statistics surfaces somewhere every week. Nirvana for demography nerds! Parsing numbers is boring, but some startling stats...

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Survey indicates 21 per cent of the British public have negative views of Muslims

Mar 5, 2024 by

from Religion Media Centre: More in Common and Together UK have conducted a survey showing 21 per cent of the public hold a negative view of Muslims, 31 per cent of the traveller community, 9 per cent of Jewish people, 8 per cent of Sikhs...

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Tories divided over new definition of extremism

Mar 5, 2024 by

by Matt Datham, The Times: Trans rights critics and traditional Christians could be caught up in crackdown on Islamism. Government plan for a new definition of extremism has sparked concerns in cabinet that it could inadvertently penalise...

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Is it a crime to oppose abortion in France?

Mar 5, 2024 by

By Richard Ings, TCW: A SPECIAL ‘Congress’ at the Versailles Palace yesterday brought together members of the French parliament’s lower and upper houses to approve an amendment to the French constitution recognising the ‘guaranteed...

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Pope continues to take a vocal stand against ‘gender theory’ that would ‘cancel humanity’

Mar 5, 2024 by

By Elise Ann Allen, Catholic Herald.   The Pope has again criticised so-called gender theory, highlighting how it cancels humanity. In an audience with participants in a March 1-2 conference titled “Man-Woman Image of God: For an...

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Jonathan Pageau: A Prophet Rises From Quebec and YouTube

Mar 5, 2024 by

By Rod Dreher, European Conservative. The ‘Symbolic World’ on how to survive the end of this world. On a trip to Germany last month, I met a young man who wanted me to understand something important about his country. He said he, like me,...

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