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Fr Dominic Allain
How to pray when you don't feel like it
i remember a faithful, prayerful person telling me that late in her life she had realised that whenever she began to pray, in her imaginatio...
In the spiritual battle, what banner do we rally to?
there are cyclamen growing wild beneath the trees and the canopy of the forest begins to turn from deep green to burnished red and gold. it ...
A 'post-human priesthood'? What a counsel of despair
the theologian josef pieper says that one of the most common errors afflicting christians is to treat god as though he were “a something” ra...
What the Amazon synod document gets wrong about Creation
the summer afforded me several opportunities to see the sea. two new grief to grace sites, in perth and on the côte d’azur, were near the in...
The man who was the English-speaking world's gateway to the popes
to the question, “how many people actually work in the vatican?”, pope john xxiii supposedly replied, “about half.” it has become part of ca...
The Amazon fires are a good metaphor for today's Church
the media is full of apocalyptic news of fires in the “lungs” of the world and discussion of the bleak future we face if this unprecedented ...
Our mental health services are vital – but they have their limitations
it is often said that we take our health for granted until something happens to it. i think this is never more the case than with mental hea...
The hardest thing about my last 20 years as a priest
in the days before there were memes, evangelical churches used to display catchy posters on their noticeboards. they included “ch —ch. what’...
The Martins didn't know they were saints – but they wanted to be
if your only catholic association for the date of july 12 was hitherto the painful one of the battle of the boyne, a new and beautiful one c...
What grace and weight loss have in common
on the feast of ss peter and paul i celebrated the 20th anniversary of my ordination to the sacred priesthood. not a huge milestone perhaps,...
Have we forgotten how to celebrate Corpus Christi?
twenty years ago this week i was on retreat in france preparing for priestly ordination. i remember it as a time overflowing with gifts of g...
Prayer should be for its own sake, not for reward
as i wait for interminable minutes on the car insurance helpline, i recognise that the muzak playing is the sound of silence. is this irony,...
Walsingham is a powerful symbol as the Church faces a crisis
i returned from leading a retreat in walsingham with the sensation of being filled, rather than emptied spiritually by the experience. fulln...
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