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Albania’s years of torment under a psychopathic communist dictator left deep scars

Mud Sweeter Than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania By Margo Rejmer. Restless Books. 304 pages In reading this account of life in communist Albania under Enver Hoxha, who ruled the country for 41 years, 1941-1985, a phrase, “the pornography of suffering”, kept coming into my mind. For in one sense the narrative is almost too […]

by Francis Phillips Dec 15, 2021Jan 6, 2022 / 4 mins /

Faith in America: where it stands today

by James Bradshaw Sep 20, 2021Sep 20, 2021 / 4 mins /

Cardinal Pell remembers his dark days behind bars

by Tim O'Sullivan Sep 5, 2021Sep 6, 2021 / 4 mins /

‘Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality’

by Angus Fox Aug 17, 2021Aug 17, 2021 / 6 mins /

Why Church-State relations in Ireland are unlike anywhere else

by James Bradshaw Aug 15, 2021Mar 20, 2023 / 5 mins /

The Irish Catholic persecution no one remembers

by James Bradshaw Aug 8, 2021Mar 20, 2023 / 4 mins /

What comes next for the tired West?

by Fr Gavan Jennings Aug 6, 2021Aug 6, 2021 / 5 mins /

Thoroughly modern Tolkien

by Andrew Byrne Aug 2, 2021Aug 2, 2021 / 4 mins /

Faith, freedom, and America’s founding Catholics

by Andrew E. Harrod Jul 6, 2021Dec 2, 2021 / 4 mins /

Turkey’s thirty-year genocide

by James Bradshaw Apr 8, 2021Apr 8, 2021 / 5 mins /

Public discourse in the ‘Age of Selfies’

by Carson Holloway Nov 6, 2020Feb 23, 2021 / 7 mins /

Review: ‘The Colour of the Sky After Rain’

by Francis Phillips Nov 2, 2020Mar 17, 2023 / 4 mins /

Pro-natalism from the Left

by Patrick T. Brown Oct 16, 2020Feb 23, 2021 / 3 mins /

Religious liberty in the age of data surveillance and soft totalitarianism

by James Bradshaw Oct 14, 2020Mar 20, 2023 / 6 mins /

A scene from the 2020 screen version of Emma

Coronavirus reading: the delightful comedy of ‘Emma’

by Campbell Markham Apr 1, 2020Feb 23, 2021 / 2 mins /