In the Coracle this week
We have a letter to your MSP on the assisted dying bill, Andrew Kuiper on the French School of spirituality and John Milbank on Catholicism and the Monarchy.
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Don’t forget our calendar of Scottish Saints, the men and women called on for centuries to pray for the people of this land.
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Letter to your MP and MSP on Assisted dying
Please copy and paste this letter, which can be used for both Edinburgh and London and send it to your political representative showing them the depth of feeling against these bills.
The French School of spirtuality
The early modern Catholics who came to be known as the French School embodied many of the distinctives, and all the contradictions, of Baroque piety and mysticism. Cardinal Pierre Berulle, Jean-Jacques Olier, Charles de Condren, St. John Eudes, and Bl. Marie of the Incarnation. And while St. Francis de Sales, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Louise de Marillac,…
Catholicism and Kingship
Catholics in Britain and Ireland may sometimes feel rather indifferent or even hostile to monarchy: associated for them with Protestantism, the debarring of Catholics from public life and English oppression of the Celtic margins.
From the periphery: Alistair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre who died on 21 May 2025 was Scotland’s leading philosopher and a practising Catholic convert. Born on 12 January 1929 in Glasgow, he was educated and worked in English universities until emigrating to America in 1970. He taught in a variety of US institutions, until his retirement in 2010 from his position as Senior Research Professor…
