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January 2014

January 11, 2014

NYTimes mostly ‘gets it’ on German schools and Islam

A few days ago, George Conger took to this space to "bury" The New York Times...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Der Spiegel and the cutting question of circumcision

The issue of circumcision has returned to Germany's newspapers -- and the manner in which...

September 28, 2013

Der Spiegel: Never let a good @Pontifex go to waste

The clear differences in the style of Pope Francis as opposed to his predecessors, both...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

German cardinal found guilty of being pro-natalist

One of the most common fallacies of our age is the assumption that simply because...

January 2013

January 10, 2013

Der Spiegel really doesn’t like Catholic Bishops

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A European magazine has written a hit...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

Pod people: Don’t mention the war!

"Don’t mention the war!” is the catch phrase from “The Germans” episode of the British...

December 13, 2012

Scratch a German, find a Nazi, the New York Times reports

The end of term is just round the corner with Christmas less than two weeks...

December 11, 2012

Celibacy and the clergy abuse scandal

Last Friday the Deutsche Bischofskonferenz, the German Episcopal Conference of the Roman Catholic Church, released...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Defining depravity downwards in Deutschland

Der Spiegel's English-language bulletin reports that conservative deputies on the Agricultural Affairs committee of the...

October 2012

October 26, 2012

European values after Auschwitz

Seventy years after the Holocaust, Germany has constructed the first monument honoring the half million...