Religion

Catholicism at its most bonkers—and prescient

The strange and startling events at Fatima continue to intrigue and haunt as the Catholic Church wrestles against the liberalising world order

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What would Jesus say?

Bishop Nazir-Ali replies to Frederic Raphael’s Open Letter to Jesus

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Roger’s religion

Sir Roger Scruton’s religious views are dissonant but beautiful

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Why Ireland’s blasphemy law needed to go

Insult for its own sake is childish and banal, but the ability to strongly criticise any creed is absolutely vital in a healthy democracy

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Roger Scruton was no atheist – argues his literary executor

On the first anniversary of his death, Scruton’s literary executor says that it is a ‘travesty of the truth’ to think that Scruton joined the ranks of those evangelical atheists

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Given modern society’s strident pro-abortion stance and irreligious view of Christmas, it’s a wonder this question hasn’t already been raised

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A letter to Jesus

Frederic Raphael poses some pertinent questions to the son of God

Features
Islamophobia and the suicide of the West

In our perverse desire to tolerate the intolerable we have succumbed to Christophobia

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Reflection in Advent

I am a half-Jewish product of artificial trees, bagels, White Hart Lane, and of two people who knew little of theology but everything of God’s love

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Vince Cable’s troubling views on China

Why is Cable so keen to deny the vast ethnic prejudices of the Chinese regime?

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