Bill McKibben in THE GUARDIAN, Sunday 26 Apr 2026 On the same way that America’s shambolic war on Iran has turned Donald Trump into the most effective EV salesman the world has ever seen, so his attempts to defend said war have produced another unlikely outcome: the rise of a genuine and global theological debate.…
Author: Fr Michael Campion
Don’t Keep Mum – Write That Condolence Letter
Edward Lucas in The Times23 April 2026 On Monday morning she was sitting in bed drinking whisky, reading The Times and fuming about Trump. On Tuesday she was drifting, and on Wednesday afternoon she took the last breath of her 97th year, with my sister and me holding her hand and head. As I began…
Trump is too deranged to continue in office
Matthew Parris in THE TIMESMonday April 20 2026, To say someone has lost his mind can carry a range of meanings. Accusations of mental instability may be merely a kind of insult, bandied around cheaply in politics, and not a serious diagnosis. But when I say the president of the United States is insane I…
An Unjust War
There are very good grounds for saying that the joint attack on Iran by the United States and Israel was reckless, illegal and immoral. The only possible justification – that if successful, it would make the world a better place – depends on a chain of possibilities that are highly implausible. From the Editor, The…
The stealth philanthropy of buying a Range Rover
by Rory Sutherland in The Spectator Even though Christmas is over, I’ve been thinking about the season just gone. There is a tradition of complaining about its commercialisation, portraying Christmas as a grotesque manifestation of consumer excess. But it’s strange to use our seasonal extravagance to attack consumer culture. That’s almost diametrically wrong. What Christmas…
Pilgrimage to Rome, to the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica, 8th October, 2025
By Bethany Deadman Walking up to the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica, carrying a heavy wooden cross, surrounded by chanting devoted Nuns on my 32nd Birthday, felt like a surreal dream. I still reflect on that day and think ‘did that actually happen?’ But it did! When the Catholic Jubilee year was announced at…
he stumbling BBC must learn from its mistakes
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a national asset that needs protecting and defending, not discrediting and dismantling, which is what its enemies, mostly in bad faith, are trying to do. In a bruised and bleeding world teeming with liars, it is a light shining in the darkness – despite the best efforts of those who…
Parish Trip to Lille October 2025
by Annie Fuller On Monday 13th October a group of 29 Holy Name parishioners and friends met up outside St Pancras Station in London, the start of an excellent 5 day holiday in Lille, France. Lille is in northern France, 126 miles north east of Paris and only 9 miles from the Belgian border. It…
‘God’s Grandeur’ shines in our care for creation
By Helen Mueting, National Catholic Reporter, 30 September As the Season of Creation draws to a close, I find myself pausing to notice the ways it invites us to renew our love and care for the world around us. At Mount St. Scholastica, we Benedictines mark this time in many small but meaningful ways. We…
Diary of a Rollator
written and submitted by an octogenarian parishioner Summer has vanished and I’m bracing myself for Autumn with its colourful but slippery leaves and mud. Today there was also the added burden of my Boss’s determination to get out on her daily walk, despite the torrential rain. So, I am proud to say that I managed…
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