Luke Collins

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A silver lining to the SSPX situation

By: Luke Collins

The answer to the SSPX is not to marginalise the old rite further, but to ensure that Catholics devoted to it can flourish within the life of the Church

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In praise of the Latin Mass Society

By: Luke Collins

From the Agatha Christie indult to a 56-mile pilgrimage through Norfolk, the Latin Mass Society has spent six decades keeping the old rite alive

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Politics can defeat assisted suicide

By: Luke Collins

With another vote on assisted suicide approaching, Catholics should recognise that parliamentary procedure, organisation and persistence can make the difference

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The danger of compassion without conscience

By: Luke Collins

The Lindsay Clancy trial raises difficult questions about mental illness, culpability and a culture in which sympathy for the distressed adult can leave the innocent out of view

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The Catholic world of the Bayeux Tapestry

By: Luke Collins

Nearly a thousand years after its creation, the Bayeux Tapestry reveals how foreign the Catholic England of 1066 can now seem to us

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Catholics are praying to St Michael again

By: Luke Collins

The Prayer to St Michael sounds medieval, but it was composed in the 19th century – and its language of spiritual warfare is finding a new audience

BioRxiv

Temporal dynamics of grooming reciprocity in crested macaques: Strongly bonded individuals reciprocate grooming more quickly

By: Jerome Micheletta, Juliane Kaminski, Adam Gaston, Luke Collins, Marine Joly

Abstract Primates maintain cooperative relationships largely through grooming reciprocity, yet studies disagree on the timescales over which grooming is returned.

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Richard Dawkins made me an atheist

By: Luke Collins

The New Atheists seemed to offer devastating objections to Christianity, but many of their arguments had been answered centuries before

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By: Luke Collins

Luke is an experienced sports journalist and editor who has produced content for multiple outlets, including The72, Last Word on Sports and The Non-League Paper.

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‘The Mission’ at 40: when Hollywood took Catholicism seriously

By: Luke Collins

Roland Joffé’s 1986 film treated priesthood, penance and missionary faith as realities rather than props, and forty years on that seriousness looks increasingly rare