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UK parliament votes for assisted dying paving way for historic law change

UK Politics · United Kingdom

UK parliament votes for assisted dying paving way for historic law change

45% Center coverage: 269 sources

U.K. lawmakers on Friday backed a bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives in a historic vote in Parliament that takes it a step nearer to becoming law. Members of Parliament voted 314-291 to back the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill following an impassioned and respectful debate.See the Story

What US Adults Think About Pope Leo XIV, According to a New AP-NORC Poll

Pope Leo XIV · United States

What US Adults Think About Pope Leo XIV, According to a New AP-NORC Poll

50% Center coverage: 66 sources

Pope Leo, Catholic Boomer? - First Things

Pope Leo XIV · Rome

Pope Leo, Catholic Boomer? - First Things

100% Right coverage: 4 sources

Like Kremlinologists during the Cold War, American Catholics are searching for clues to the character of their new pope. Conservatives take heart that he wore the red mozzetta that Pope Francis had spurned and sings the Regina Caeli in Latin. Progressives hang their hats on his repeated assurances that he will continue efforts toward greater synodality and the fact that he took the name of a pope best known for his social teaching. All this is i…See the Story

Finding Sanctuary in Jerusalem - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

I arrived in Jerusalem on the evening of June 11, but what was meant to be a four-day visit stretched into two weeks. When Israel launched missiles at Iran’s nuclear and military facilities on June 13, everything shut down: airports, airspace, checkpoints, even the gates into the Old City. But while my planned pilgrimage to the Holy Land imploded, I discovered a different aspect of pilgrimage: the key role of religious orders and houses in offer…Jerusalem · Jerusalem See the Story

On Flannery O’Connor’s Centenary - First Things

100% Right coverage: 3 sources

How appropriate that Flannery O’Connor should have been born on the Solemnity of the Annunciation: the liturgical feast celebrating the willing acceptance of a God-given vocation. As we marked Miss O’Connor’s centenary three months ago—and yes, boys and girls, it was Miss O’Connor, as no one would have been more repelled by the neologism Ms.—that’s the dimension of her life that struck me most powerfully: her embrace of the challenging vocation …Savannah, Georgia · Savannah See the Story

God and Woman at Cornell - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

This essay is adapted from a public conversation at Cornell University with Elizabeth Lyon Hall, head of the COLLIS Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, in association with Chesterton House, on April 10. Hall: Mary, we’re super excited to welcome back a Cornell alumna. Since you have a feel for the school and our ethos, can you talk about your trajectory from student at Cornell to becoming a Christian apologist and public intellectual? D…Ithaca, New York · Ithaca Read Article

A Modern-Day Pierce Parental Rights Case? - First Things

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A case percolating through the Florida state court system has the potential to kill two birds with one stone: upend the subversion of parental rights when it comes to minors wanting abortions while strongly buttressing the case for parental rights. Doe v. Uthmeier could be as landmark a decision for parental rights today as Pierce v. Society of Sisters was a century ago, in which the Supreme Court struck down an Oregon law requiring children to …Abortion · Florida Read Article

Jesus After the Critics - First Things

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Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesusby elaine pagelsdoubleday, 336 pages, $30 Quests for the “historical Jesus” are as old as Christianity itself. The claims of Jesus’s earliest followers and the strange communities to which they gave rise were so extravagant that outsiders quite reasonably wanted to know what the fuss was about. Who was this Jesus, this man whom people worshipped as God? When Christianity did not go away but flou…Christianity · Princeton Read Article

Metabolizing the Beautiful - First Things

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Why Literature Still Matters:Beauty After the Apocalypseby jason m. baxtercassiodorus, 82 pages, $16 My father, a mild-mannered physician then in his forties, used to become positively explosive on Sunday afternoons. We could be home from church, through with lunch, and watching the ’90s-era Dallas Cowboys. As the ball hung in the air between Troy Aikman in the backfield and the careening receiver, Michael Irvin, Dad would involuntarily leap to …United States · United States Read Article

The Future of Reading - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

More is read now in a year than was read before in a hundred years.” So declared Lectura Popular, a Catholic publication aimed at the working classes of Chile, in September 1889. Such was the public’s appetite for written materials, the magazine warned, that “readings are devoured and that is why people become sick.” Peasants moving to the cities were adapting their traditional forms of poetry, orally transmitted for generations, to cover politi…Catholic Church · Santiago Read Article

Classical Renewal by Research - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

The research pursued these days in university humanities departments does not, as a rule, enjoy high esteem among those who value the West’s traditional forms of education. For decades, critics of the university have been reporting the titles of courses, funded research, and conference papers, with a mixture of ridicule and outrage, to illustrate the capture of academe by political activists. Attendees of the Modern Language Association conventi…United States · United States Read Article

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