The crews on board the world’s merchant fleet are the ghosts of world trade: Unseen, largely unloved and inhabiting a homeless netherworld the rest of us will never experience.
When asked to comment on France's decision in July to recognise the State of Palestine, the Vatican Secretary of State noted that the Holy See has recognised Palestine “da…
Pope Francis will not visit the European institutions during his trip to Luxembourg and Brussels, which will take place from September 26 to 29.
Volodymyr Zelensky is a man who knows what he wants: air defence interceptors, artillery, ATACMS long-range precision-guided missiles, more Stinger anti-aircraft missiles,…
When trying to understand the political position of the Catholic Church, there are two methods. One, just read the press release.
In the run-up to the European Parliament elections in June, Europe's Catholic bishops have been far from silent.
Pope Francis is 87.
Pope Francis has announced that he will travel to Belgium later this year to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the Catholic University of Louvain or Leuven.
Pope Francis is making the Church's stand on surrogacy a central issue of his papacy.
Brussels’s Common Agricultural Policy worked for years, at great cost and with a wealth of regulations, to bring closer the EU member states’ farming sectors.
2023 ended with two ongoing major wars, a worldwide military buildup, a realignment of most of the African continent as captive clients of China and Russia, and the self-inflicted…
You have to hand it to Emmanuel Macron.
It started with the effective kickoff of his four-month projected “Estates General of Information”, and ended with the 6th Paris Peace Forum.
The high-level contact between the Holy See and Iran, especially in the context of the conflict that broke out in the Holy Land, should not be surprising.
In the streets of London, hundred thousand-strong mobs bay for Jewish blood under cover of “humanitarian concern” for Hamas-held Gaza.
The resignation statement of Josh Paul — the director of congressional and public affairs at the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, who published…
As I write, the media echo chamber has, predictably, become a fog of counter-narratives over the Israel-Hamas conflict, intended to dismiss the unique horror of October 7’s…
Punaise! is an old-fashioned slangy French exclamation — its meaning not unadjacent to WTF?
Eight years after the encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis published another document, called an apostolic exhortation, to say what has been done - and what has not been done…
“No matter how much I try to imagine my grandfathers and great-grandfathers setting fire to other workers' cars, it just doesn’t work. #why”
I’ve never believed that George Soros was an agent of Jewish barber lizard aliens commanded by Klaus Schwab out of a secret underground Swiss bunker carved from aged Emmental.
As usual, Emmanuel Macron’s timing was atrocious. Last Tuesday King Mohammed VI of Morocco was visiting victims of the massive earthquake in Marrakech’s University hospital.
As an end-of-summer holiday, it was unexpected - and decidedly welcome.
This week’s 15th BRICS summit, which will be held in Johannesburg from Tuesday to Thursday, is billing itself as an international game-changer.
They can look like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalking Dead in his Thriller video, and seem about as relevant.
That loud noise you hear may be the sound of the Net Zero agenda crashing.
“Men are essentially what they hide: a miserable little pile of secrets”, wrote the much married and mistressed André Malraux.
Mohammed*, my 40-year-old Moroccan greengrocer, whose small busy shop in a quiet street in central Paris serves as an informal club for the entire neighbourhood, tells me…
France's riots have sparked debate about the integration of communities from North and Sub-Saharan Africa into French society.
It will be Emmanuel Macron’s next grand “Republican Ceremony”. The French president has a seemingly insatiable thirst for leading the country into remembering past glories.
