Any major monetary expansion causes inflation. This past year, a combination of domestic restrictions on economic activity, speculation in the headwind of uncertainty, and the overall nature of energy markets, created inflationary pressure where under normal economic circumstances none would have existed.

“Euthanasia is confused with palliative care, it is called ‘dignified death’ and it is assumed to be a medical act, when it is not. [This becomes] deception when the law requires that deaths by euthanasia be considered natural deaths from a legal point of view. Something that, in addition to not being true, makes it difficult to control.”—Manuel Martínez-Sellés

At the very moment when the Christian Gospel, with its life-giving and hopeful message of the triumph of life over death, and of light defeating darkness, so desperately needed to be heard, there seemed to be silence from those charged with preaching that Good News.

Facebook posts are just one of hundreds, if not thousands, of information war strikes Ukraine has made trying to reach the heart of Russia.

The European Union is not NATO, but Ukraine joining the Union, while undoubtedly symbolically effective, could further aggravate tensions between Russia and the rest of the European continent.

According to the Swedish health agency, there is insufficient data to explain why the diagnosis of “gender dysphoria” has increased in recent years and why there are more girls than boys among patients with the diagnosis. 

The Arthurian legend, despite attempts to use it for other purposes, is a parable of a militant Catholicism that saved Western civilisation.