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Universities and the faculty of judgement
What we should learn from the Jason Arday affair
 • Miles Pattenden
The Holy Ghost in the machine
Pope Leo confronts AI
 • Miles Pattenden
When popes and emperors collide
History should inform Pope Leo XIV’s criticisms of Donald Trump
 • Miles Pattenden
The very model of a modern man of faith
Pope Francis and the Church he leaves behind
 • Miles Pattenden
A Middle Ages for Middle Australia
From Luna Park to neo‑Nazis, why Europe’s deep past still matters Down Under
 • Miles Pattenden
When Baptism goes wrong
The Church’s rules in a new era of legalism
 • Miles Pattenden
Blythburgh from half a world away
If I could go anywhere...it would have been here
 • Miles Pattenden
On Historians and the Historicity of Jesus
An Exchange with Professor John Dickson
 • Miles Pattenden
George Pell’s “prison journal”
Whether or not George Pell’s “prison journal” rehabilitated him in the eyes of the public, it certainly deserved full appraisal as an historical…
 • Miles Pattenden
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