3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (190+ words) The Bishop of Leicester has decided that it’s OK, even admirable, for clergy to use AI to write sermons It’s the little phrases, the pattern: not this, but that. There’s an intrinsic absence of humour and of humility. Because AI…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (863+ words) The Spectator The new Jesus freaks don’t want peace I stopped charging my phone beside my bed four years ago and have never regretted it. Alarm clocks seemed destined to go the way of the DVD, but I am on…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (597+ words) Pope Leo XIV has just passed the first great test of his pontificate. He has published a thoughtful encyclical on a controversial topic that (a) does not contain whole sections obviously farmed out to progressive lobbyists; (b) is not stuffed with semi-literate…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (519+ words) Donald Trump’s latest clash with the Catholic Church stunned even the most hardened veterans of culture-war Twitter. According to the President of the United States, the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV, the conspicuously holy spiritual leader of 1.3 billion people, is ‘WEAK…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (189+ words) Granted, I was not the most obvious person to appreciate the installation of Sarah Mullaly in Canterbury, even though I think her a splendid Christian pastor and indeed, an exemplary Christian. Her kind, homely face radiates charity and good will;…...