Musk challenges Putin to ‘single combat’ for Ukraine Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted out a challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, the challenge being ‘single combat’ and the stakes being Ukraine. Writing Mr Putin’s name in Russian and Ukraine in Ukrainian, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO said “I hearby challenge (Vladimir Putin) to single…
Frank Litton Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis by Massimo Borghesi (Liturgical Press Academic, US$29.95/£23.99) Two women shout across the street in angry argument from their tenement rooms. The doctor, poet and wit, Oliver St John Gogarty turns to his companion: “those women will never agree.” “How do you know?.”…
Barb Farze Russian President Vladimir Putin did not invade Ukraine out of concern that NATO would encroach on his borders, but concern about “the disease of democracy that could spread like a virus, and that’s deadly for oligarchies and authoritarian rulers,” said the archbishop who serves as a “foreign minister” for the Ukrainian Catholic Church.…
The Vatican published on Saturday a long-awaited document implementing Pope Francis’ reform of the organisation and structure of the Roman Curia. The apostolic constitution, Praedicate evangelium (“Preach the Gospel”), was released initially only in Italian on March 19 after nine years in production by the Pope’s Council of Cardinal Advisers. The constitution underlines that “any member of…
Staff reporter The Faculty of Philosophy at Maynooth is set to host a conference next month exploring what Christianity can bring to current debates in the world. Leading speakers will include Rowan Williams (the former Archbishop of Canterbury), John Milbank (the founding figure of Radical Orthodoxy), David Bentley Hart (the public voice of Eastern Orthodoxy…
Medical Matters Vitamin D has been catapulted into a ‘hotspot’ of discussion in the field of nutritional health science over the last decade. There are now nearly 100,000 published peer reviewed studies on the topic of “vitamin D’ and over 1,000 specifically related to vitamin D and Covid. So what’s our understanding of vitamin D…
Devotion: A Memoir by Mickey Harte as told to Brendan Coffey (Harper-Collins Ireland , €24.99/£21.99) Owing to his role as manager of the Tyrone senior football team, the face of Mickey Harte is one of the most recognisable in the country. This book leaves one in no doubt about the truly remarkable character of the…
When did we lose it? When did we lose that deeply-engrained, forever-sanctioned sense that however much we might disagree with each other or even dislike each other, we still need to accord each other basic courtesy, respect, and politeness? We’ve lost that, at least for the most part. From the highest levels of government to…
A Ukrainian priest described escaping from his bombed-out parish in Mariupol and said he still hopes some Catholics will survive the relentless Russian onslaught. Pauline Father Pavlo Tomaszewski said the decision to leave was not easy, “but when they started shelling the whole city, we realised we’d have to go”. “They bombed and shelled us…
Archbishop Martin to join Pope in consecrating Russia and Ukraine Archbishop Eamon Martin said he is looking forward to joining Pope Francis in consecrating Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25. Pope Francis invited bishops and priests across the globe to join him in the prayer for peace and act…
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