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Why are bishops so boring?
For 30 years Damian Thompson has been bored senseless by the public pronouncements of bishops – Anglicans and Catholics. Why do they feel the need to…
7 years, 4 months ago
Gay smears and the Vatican’s sex abuse summit
The publication of In the Closet of the Vatican by the French gay polemicist Frédéric Martel has been meticulously timed to coincide with Pope Franci…
7 years, 4 months ago
My sister Carmel on her cancer and her faith
This is a picture of my sister Carmel and I having tea a few days after our mother’s funeral. She looks cheerful, doesn’t she? That’s because she was…
7 years, 5 months ago
Is it a sin to be snobbish?
With Father Alexander Lucie-Smith, moral theologian, and Lara Prendergast, Assistant Editor of the Spectator.
Presented by Damian Thompson.
Become a Sp…
7 years, 9 months ago
What has Pope Francis covered up?
Just how much do those at the highest echelons of the Vatican know about former Archbishop McCarrick's sexual abuse through the years? Has Pope Franc…
7 years, 10 months ago
The question of ethnicity that is dividing the Sikh community
With Hardeep Singh, journalist and press officer for Lord Singh of Wimbledon.
Presented by Damian Thompson.
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7 years, 11 months ago
Cardinal McCarrick, sex abuse and the shameful silence of the American bishops
The Catholic church is reeling from its most significant sex abuse scandal for many years. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired Archbishop of Washing…
7 years, 11 months ago
An atheist goes on a Christian pilgrimage. What’s the point?
The young atheist writer Guy Stagg threw in his job a few years ago to undertake a pilgrimage to Jerusalem via Rome - choosing a hazardous medieval r…
8 years ago
Is the Catholic Church embracing homosexuality?
‘Juan Carlos, that you are gay does not matter. God made you like this and loves you like this and I don’t care. The pope loves you like this. You ha…
8 years, 1 month ago
Why do we insist on worshipping the NHS?
This summer, adherents of our national quasi-religion are marking the 70th anniversary of its foundation by St Aneurin Bevan. How did a secular model…
8 years, 2 months ago