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Author Archives: Andrew Stuttaford
Pope Francis and Venezuela: Throwing Another Tyranny a Lifeline
Cross-posted on the Corner: Critics of Pope Francis who describe him as a ‘socialist’ are fairly wide off the mark. Perhaps that was inevitable: Describing the ideology of a pope in conventionally political terms is, by definition, going to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Cuba, Peronism, Pope Francis, Venezuela
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The Slippery Slope?
Opponents of assisted suicide often warn how legalizing it would represent a slippery slope. That’s not an argument convincing to those who have slid very far down a slope themselves. And nor should it be. STV News: The family of … Continue reading
Christmas in Jablonovka
Furlough in Jablonovka by the Austrian-Jewish writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) includes a description of Christmas just behind the front lines of the Eastern front during Roth’s time with the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War (the translation is by … Continue reading
Pope Francis and “Fake News”
It was perhaps not that surprising that Pope Francis would look to involve himself in the controversy over ‘fake news’. The terms in which he did so were, however, unexpected…. The Guardian reports: Pope Francis has lambasted media organisations that … Continue reading
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Tagged conspiracy theories, Pope Francis, Religious Left
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Castro: The Pope and the Dictator
To Pope Francis, Castro’s death was “sad” news, kind words indeed from someone who the former dictator would once have described as “social scum”. Meanwhile, just two or three weeks ago the pontiff was being quoted favorably on Telesur (a … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged Christianity, Communism, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Pope Francis, Religious Left
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Morrigan’s Hotel
Writing in The Guardian, Alex Mar explains how making a documentary film “about a handful of fringe religious communities around the country” led her deep into the pagan world. The article is an interesting account of where the search for … Continue reading
Germany: “Everything about this mosque made me feel uneasy”
Cross-posted on the Corner: One obvious concern about Angela Merkel’s decision last year to, so to speak, throw open the doors to Germany was the obvious risk that potential jihadists were among those that she was welcoming into the country. … Continue reading
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Tagged Germany, Islamic fundamentalism, Salafism
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Clearing a Path for Christ (on Mars)?
Over at Foreign Policy, James Poulos frets that, in the event that Elon Musk’s Mars mission ever gets off the ground, Musk (who admittedly has some strange beliefs: he appears to think that we are all living in some type … Continue reading
‘3-Parent’ Babies: A Controversy That Shouldn’t Be
The New York Times: A few months ago, after a fertility procedure at a Mexican clinic, a healthy baby boy was born in New York to a couple from Jordan. It was the first live birth of a child who … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Three Parent' Babies, Bio-ethics, genetics, Roman Catholicism
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