From the Vatican
A major Vatican conference marking ten years since Amoris Laetitia will seek to identify “new steps” for the Church as it reflects on a decade of experience implementing Pope Francis’s controversial exhortation. Michael Haynes examines the synod-style gathering and the questions surrounding its treatment of the doctrinal disputes that have accompanied the document since its publication.
Illinois has reached an agreement with a group of Muslim doctors who argued that the state’s new assisted suicide law would force them to cooperate in practices forbidden by their faith. Christine Rousselle reports on the settlement and its implications for continuing religious-liberty challenges to the legislation.
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has unexpectedly entered the field of Christology after refusing to remove Jesus from an image on the grounds that He was a “fake god”. Corrie Douglas-Young looks at the AI’s subsequent defence of Christ’s divinity – complete with a quotation from St Luke – and the online reaction it provoked.
A new charity has been launched to tackle the isolation experienced by autistic Catholics and help parishes, schools and dioceses become more welcoming to neurodiverse people. Corrie Douglas-Young explores Catholic Autism UK’s ambition to become a “catalyst for change” by ensuring autistic Catholics themselves have a greater voice in the Church’s pastoral life.
A century after her conversion to Catholicism, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sigrid Undset may be taking the first steps towards the altar. In the Michaelmas edition of the magazine, Christopher Akers traces the extraordinary life and faith of the author of Kristin Lavransdatter, as the Church in Norway prepares formally to open her cause for canonisation.
Illinois has reached an agreement with a group of Muslim doctors who argued that the state’s new assisted suicide law would force them to cooperate in practices forbidden by their faith. Christine Rousselle reports on the settlement and its implications for continuing religious-liberty challenges to the legislation.
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has unexpectedly entered the field of Christology after refusing to remove Jesus from an image on the grounds that He was a “fake god”. Corrie Douglas-Young looks at the AI’s subsequent defence of Christ’s divinity – complete with a quotation from St Luke – and the online reaction it provoked.
A new charity has been launched to tackle the isolation experienced by autistic Catholics and help parishes, schools and dioceses become more welcoming to neurodiverse people. Corrie Douglas-Young explores Catholic Autism UK’s ambition to become a “catalyst for change” by ensuring autistic Catholics themselves have a greater voice in the Church’s pastoral life.
A century after her conversion to Catholicism, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sigrid Undset may be taking the first steps towards the altar. In the Michaelmas edition of the magazine, Christopher Akers traces the extraordinary life and faith of the author of Kristin Lavransdatter, as the Church in Norway prepares formally to open her cause for canonisation.
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