This is not a country at ease with itself, if it ever were. The United Kingdom continues to display more and more intolerance and anger.
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Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Do Europeans want a Muslim immigration ban?
Even as Europeans vastly overestimate the actual Muslim populations of their countries, majorities across Europe are deeply concerned about Muslim immigration and support an immediate end to it.
Posted inFaith, News
Local phase of Fatima visionary’s sainthood cause completed
Father Romano Gambalunga said that while “Lucia is already a saint in the eyes” of many people, “the prudent path of the church is that she is proposed to all, not just those who believe.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Donald Trump is getting strong rebukes from both religious and political leaders in Great Britain
Cardinal Vincent Nichols used an interview to condemn the “false notion” that Christianity and Islam are in conflict.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
German Evangelical Church issues historic invite to Pope Francis
Catholics and evangelicals must “continue to witness together to the Gospel and to continue on the road to full unity,” Francis said.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
How the Catholic French presidential candidate went from qualified to questionable
In just over a week Francois Fillon’s chances of winning France’s presidency have nosedived amid a string of allegations.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Alternative facts and the coming constitutional crisis
We more likely face destabilizing, constitutional confusion, than brute authoritarianism.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘A Man Called Ove’ will win the foreign film Oscar. Oddly, it deserves it.
Thanks to the arcane rules behind the foreign-language Oscar, sentimentality usually reigns supreme.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Northern Ireland’s unity government is falling apart and an election is coming soon
The main Irish Catholic party is demanding an early election.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
What a candid interview with Donald Trump means for US-British relations
Interfering with another nation’s politics having evidently become a thing, Donald Trump told his interviewer that Britain is “smart” for getting out of the European Union.