The fact that he is overseeing the Synod on Synodality has led the world to suppose that the direction it is taking is also what Cardinal Hollerich wants. Possibly, but not necessarily.

In order for France to live up to its pillars of liberté, égalité and fraternité, it must confront the rising tide of antisemitism.

The attempted classification of rape as a ‘non-emergency’ would be shocking in any Western democracy; but in 21st-century Britain, the home of Magna Carta, it now appears the right to justice is too much to ask.

The Trump indictment puts the spotlight on a very disturbing trend in American politics: the slow transition of a constitutional republic into a totalitarian state.

“I urge you, on behalf of the children who cannot defend their own rights, to reject the Certificate of Parenthood.”

Let’s take Finnish MP Räsänen’s words to heart: “Now it is time to speak. Because the more we are silent, the narrower the space for freedom of speech and religion grows.”

‘Misgendering’ transgender people is the ultimate crime in mainstream reporting. Except when they shoot up a Christian school, of course.

It appears Meloni is hoping to take advantage of the leadership vacuum created after the end of the Merkel era to create a new center-right alliance that can lead the Right to a large majority in the 2024 European elections.

Fully one year on, intellectuals are yet to make a decisive appearance to alter the course of the conflict.

The restoration work will have been an undertaking on a totally unprecedented scale—a material experience, but also a spiritual one, of which our contemporary era offers few examples.

Cities that allow the most destructive of human behavior to take over the public space are cities where civilized life as we know it is being marginalized and forced to give way to social fragmentation. Dignity yields to savagery.

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce must have presented quite a challenge for the officers: a lone, middle-aged Catholic woman, armed with a double-barrelled surname, silently thinking forbidden thoughts.