Babies who die before being baptised will no longer be trapped in limbo following a decision by the Pope to abolish the concept from Roman Catholic teaching. The decision was taken after Benedict XVI was presented with Vatican studies that said there were "serious" grounds that such souls could go to heaven, rather than exist between heaven and hell as they have done for almost 800 years. The 41-p
René Girard, the French-born philosopher and anthropologist, who has died aged 91, was once described as the “most compelling Catholic thinker of the age”; he was best known for his “mimetic theory” in which he elaborated a sweeping anthropology of religion. Set out in his first major work, Deceit, Desire and the Novel (1966), the theory holds that human beings learn by imitating those around them
Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said the they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination. “Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,” the German Ethics Council said in a statement. “The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to b
If anyone knows the importance of a towel, the "most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have", it is an astronaut. Samantha Cristoforetti, an astronaut currently on board the International Space Station, read an extract about towels from the comedy sci-fi book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to celebrate World Towel Day, a fan-led annual celebration on May 25 in honour of i
Shoppers in Amsterdam get a shock as Rembrandt's masterpiece "The Night Watch" is recreated before their eyes. This video, which was posted on YouTube, shows performers taking part in a large-scale flashmob recreation of Rembrandt's famous painting "The Night Watch". The stunt was organised to coincide with the return of the painting, considered one of the Dutch artist's greatest works, to Amsterd
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