We more likely face destabilizing, constitutional confusion, than brute authoritarianism.
Europe
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.
Posted inFaith, News
Apology from Archbishop of Canterbury coming for Reformation violence against Catholics
The statement is expected to express remorse that the (Protestant) Church of England carried out so many acts of violence.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A small land with an outsized role
While it has long been a gleam in the Russian eye, it has been a thorn for Western diplomacy.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Donald Trump has some choice words for a wind farm that spoils his view in Scotland
President-elect Trump took rhetorical swings at Scotland’s first minister as a wind farm threatens to ruin the view from in Aberdeen.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
What do Graham Greene, Flannery O’Connor and Caravaggio have in common? Their Ignatian imagination.
‘Imagination is a spiritual reality that can draw us toward the good, the true and the beautiful.’
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Why people of faith in the UK need to fight against bigotry and fear this Advent.
The upsurge of xenophobic and hate-filled public conduct in the United Kingdom requires an urgent response from people of faith.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
German Catholics search for consolation in prayer after Berlin attack
“The past night has struck us and shaken us deeply,” Bishop Gebhard Furst told attendees at Rottenburg’s Cathedral of St. Martin.